Cocked Hat and Fly Whisk for Coronation. Native Chief gets Abbey Invite. Carrying a fly-whisk, the distinguishing mark of his rank, Paramount Chief Mwanawina III of Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, will wear a uniform like this at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. A seat has been reserved for the Chief, who is pictured in the outfit at Westminster Abbey. The uniform includes cocked hat trimmed half military and half naval style; a gold laced coat, gauntlets sword and tassels. A new uniform, precisely the same as this is being made in London for the Occassion. The original uniform is said to have been given to Chief Lewanika - Chief Mwanawina's father - by the then Colonial Secretary Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in the early 1900's. February 25, 1953.

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