Herero or Damaras, a Bantu tribe of German South-West Africa, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209;
their prayers and sacrifices for rain, i. 287;
their fire-customs, ii. 211 sqq.;
their huts and villages, ii. 212 sq.;
their worship of ancestors, ii. 221;
seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 151;
purification of warriors after battle among the, iii. 176;
holiness of women in childbed among the, iii. 225 n.;
the worship of the dead among the, vi. 185 sqq.