'The Swazi Bride at her wedding shows little enthusiasm for the festivities. It is undignified to exhibit pleasure on leaving her father's kraal and entering that of her father-in-law. At one stage in the ceremony, she stands at a distance from the main celebrations, leaning on a spear. Later she drives this spear into the ground as a symbol that her first born son should be heir to the kraal. If an heir is already established a member of the husband's party strikes the spear to the ground. There is then no further discussion on this particular, important matter. The bride wears a new ‘isidwaba’, or married woman’s oxhide skirt, her new ‘isiqolo' or red-ochred built-up hair style, but no ornament save a small bladder attached to the ‘isiqolo’.