EWE (a-wa'), a long-headed patrilineal people living in Togo and the Gold Coast, having immigrated from the north-east. They are organized in small kingdoms, the king is elected from among the chiefs and assisted by a council of notables. They have the extended family, holding property in common, and allowing indi vidual ownership of personal possessions. Inheritance passes to the maternal uncle, but different kinds of movable property pass to the paternal uncle and the children. They are husbandmen and animists, and practice divination and the ordeal.
See Spieth, Die Ewe Stamme (1906) .