This is a summary of the accessible information about the five tribes who inhabit the banks of the lower Okavango where it flows through the northern Kalahari Desert. Kavango, the names given to the peoples treated in this volume, is not the traditional name for themselves, for they identify their ethnic units as Vakwangari, Vambundza, Vagciriku, Vasambyu and Hambukushu. Human environment; Ethnology.