Tsonga Kraal Museum

Situated in the Hans Merensky Nature Reserve this museum represents the cultural products and building styles of the North Tsonga tribes. The tribes were comprised of refuge groups from the Southern parts of Mozambique. As the Museum is today, it attempts to show as many building styles as possible. This is a traditional Tsonga homestead, where everyday life is portrayed and where you can see the different styles of the Northern Tsonga over the past 200 years. The layout of the museum includes different types of sleeping huts, grain, cooking huts stores, the ancestral tree , a sacrificial hut, a goat hut, a chicken hut and a cattle kraal. The homestead of a Chief with eight wifes were the basis where upon the kraal was fashioned. The arrangement of the huts follows a set pattern but many variations of the pattern are found in the area. The kraal was built entirely from traditional materials. Mopane poles bound to mopane bark forms the framework of most huts and clay from anthills were used for the floors and walls. Different coulerd soil were used to make up the paint which decorates the walls.

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