Note on Hitherto Unpublished Data on the Tati Ruins, 1876

Abstract

Near Old Tati 60 kilometres southeast of Francistown there are several dry-stone ruins associated with the ancestral Kalanga and the Butua State (van Waarden 1998:139). The purpose of this short and intentionally descriptive note is to introduce two hitherto unpublished sketches of these ruins in the hope that they may be of some interest to those studying this aspect of Botswana’s early history. They are preserved in the field sketchbooks of the Czech traveller Emil Holub, now housed in Náprstek Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.