Cuis people are descendants of the first Bantu groups that arrived in Angola. They live in marginal zones around Virei town and work for the Cubal cattle pastoralist. The Cuis usually camp near rock formations. They have lost their original language but they have preserved the rest of their cultural identity and continue to hunt and gather.
The territory of the Cuis is dry and rocly. Asa semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer people, they harly have craft. Through the excahnge of game meat with the Cubal neighbors, they obtain baskets and other utensils for picking fruits and cooking. They usually hunt with traps and spears that they make themselves. Men carve fine pipes and women make antelope-skin baby carriers and necklaces with which they often decorate their heads as a crown.
Photo Gallery: © Jordi Zaragozà Anglès / Angola - 2018
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