text: 29-94-12 N4.4933-6
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  Fig. 7. Upper part of a chief's baton used by the Lunda tribes of the Kasai district, Belgian Congo. (baton is 60 cm . long)  
  Hamites of this wave extended their conquest still farther to the south. According to tradition, the ruling class of the Walipa on the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika belongs to this Bahima dynasty. Also the ruling classes of the Wahehe and Wabena of the northern Nyasa area appear to be related to the Hamites, and finally we may point to the well-known Zimbabwe culture of Southern Rhodesia, which flourished there between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and may owe its origin to Hamitic invaders.  
  Not all the Hamites of this first wave of expansion established themselves as the political overlords of Negro people; some seem to have retained a great deal of their original culture and to have merely settled within Negro territory, particularly in those areas which were most suitable for their pastoral pursuits. The most prominent of these Hamites are the tall Watussi (or Batutsi) who now inhabit the high plateaus of Ruanda and Urundi. In spite of the fact that they, as some of the Bahima, retain the fiction of superiority over the Negro, they are now little different in skin color from the Negro-the Bahutu, as they are called locally-with whom they have intermarried.