Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ites (chiefly Galla) worship a sky-god, and regardcertain animals (crocodiles, lions, snakes), trees and grass as holy.Ordeals are found among the Hamites ; a belief in wer-animalsamong the Galla ; the wearing of amulets is universal. AFRICA 193 The vallej^s and marshes of the Upper White Nile are inhabitedby a race of pure negroes, who on the whole are very similarin physique and customs. They probably belong to a very earlybranch of the negro race which entered its present abode underpressure of the Hamitic immigration into Africa. The chief tribesare as follows : The Shilluk inhabit the north bank on either sideof the Sobat confluence ; the Nuer, related in speech but differingin physique, are found on the south bank from the Sobat con-fluence to the Bahr-el-Arab. The pastoral Dinka, who, with theShilluk, may be taken as typical of this group, are scattered overa wide extent of country between the Bahr-el-Ghazal and theregion east of the Sobat. South of the Dinka, between the Bahr-
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FiG. 169.—Nilotic tribes, a. Iron lighting-wristlet, Mittu tribe, UpperNile. h. Ivory armlet, Shilluk tribe, Ui)per Nile. c. Iron fighting-wristletwith guard for edge, Acholi and Lango, Uganda Protectorate, d. Ivory-hunting-horn, Dor tribe, Upper Nile. el-Gebel and Bahr-el-Ghazal, are the .Jur, who still preserve thetradition that they have moved up from the south ; while theupper tributaries of the latter river are occupied by the Dor.This tribe seems related to the Mittu (Upper Nam Rohl) andconnects the Nilotic negroes, physically, with the Zandeh peoplesto the west. The Jibbeh on the upper Sobat, to judge from theirfairer complexion and otlier physical characters, must havereceived a tinge of Hamitic blood ; and the Bari of the upperBahr-el-Gebel are distantly connected with the Masai. Soutli ofthe Bari, on the west bank are the Madi, Lendu and Alur, andeast of thorn between tlie Bari and Victoria Nyanza are the Latuka,Aclioli, and Lango, of whom the first seem to stand midwaybet

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