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headman sentence examples

  • Headman of a village is the oldest male of the dominant subclan.
  • Headman's house.
  • All villages are subdivided into hamlets, each with its own headman, an indigenous office.
  • Headmanalues of obscurantist mullahs, traditional village headmen and gun-toting banditry replaced those of national equality, women's liberation and secularism.
  • Headmanen village headmen drank the holy water to seal their pledge to protect the forest.
  • Headman's matrilocal extended family.
  • The local headman pointed out to us an overgrown site telling the tale that it was a japanese war cemetery.
  • Hamlet headmen do not, therefore constitute any serious threat to the position of the patriclan avat.
  • Headman's ax.
  • It is interesting to see that the duties of the tribal headman in freetown were almost identical.
  • Headman's relatives, are the nobility.
  • Without such support a young headman could not entertain.

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