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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«S:c. ; north ofthe Welle is the great Azandeh nation (including the Abandia,Bombe. Makarka, and Mundu) whose eastern neighbours arethe Sakara ; on the west are the Dor, described in the sectionon the Nilotic tribes. On the Gribingi are the Sara, Gaberi, &c.South-east of the Azandeh are the Abarambo, Mangbetu, Mege,Maigo, Momfu, Abisanga, Mabode, and Bakumu. The history AFRICA 229 of the peoi)ling of this district is very obscure : the scatteredMomfu and Mege may have been the first arrivals, the formercoming from the east; the Abisanga may liave followed shortlyafter, and then the Mangbetu. who conquered the foregoingtribes and impo-ed their language and customs on them. Theexpansion of the Mangljetu received its first check at the handsof the Azandeh, who had meanwhile arrived from the north-west,and appear to have affinities with the Fula. Internal dissensionsfostered by the Arabs arose ; the empire established by Munzabroke up; and the Mangbetu disappeared as a power, and even
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Fig. 207. â Knives from tlie Welle District, Congo State, a. Azandehthrowing-knife, b. Mangbettu chiefs knife. as a people, for those who still bear the name are by no meanspure-blooded. The language and customs, however, remain. Pygmies are found sporadically in both sections of this area,though they are more numerous in the east. They are known asvariously Akka, Tikitiki, Wochua, BaLia (Welle Basin), BaMbuteand BaTwa (Ituri-Aruwimi and Semliki basins), Beyaga,Bebayaa, and Betsan (Upper Sanga), BaBongo (Ogowe basin). âºSkins and palm-cloth form the principal clothing in the west:bark-clotli is typical of the Welle watershed : women as a rulewear little clothing. Cicatrization, which is univeisal, is mostextensive among the Bantu tribes of the east. Tooth-mutilation

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