settling their disputes, his men handed over to him any livestock they seized
from neighboring chiefdoms, and he had the right to summon his people to
work for him. They cultivated the fields of his senior wives, since he was
expected to use their produce to entertain guests and feed the men when
they were summoned to his village for political discussions or military
purposes. A chief was thus rich enough to marry more wives and provide
more generous hospitality than any of his subjects.s"
Most conflicts that came to the chief arose from arguments about cattle
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