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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Fif;. 191.-Woodensnuff-mortar. Ba-Mbala, Kwilu River. Fig. 192.—Wooden head-rest.N. BaMbala, Kwilu River, CongoState. have spread across the continent as far as the Kasai, dividingthe BaKete aborigines, wlio are found to the east of that river,into two portions: in the west the BaLuba are known asBashiLange. An important section of BaLuba called BaSonge(including the BaSanga), to whom the Zappo-Zapp, a mongreltribe, are related, are found Ijetween the Lul)i and Lomami.North of them are the BaTetela people, including tlje Ba-Kussu and MaNyema who have wandered down from the north-east. East of the Lualaba to the ncntli of the BaLuba are the 218 AFRICA WaKegga, the MaNyemn, and the BaKuimi. WaNgenia, awater-folk, are found ahnost everywhere in the Lualaha. In thearea drained byJ^Kasai north of the BaKete are the BaKuba,arrivals from the north, who call themselves BuShongo, or peoi:)leof the throwing-knife. They are divided into a number of sub-
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Fk;. 108.—Old wooden cup. BuShongo, Congo Free State. tribes, of which the most important are the BaMbala (chief tribe),BaNgendi, BaNgongo, and Isambo, the last of which is independent.The BuShongo are particularly interesting as the founders of anempire which reached its zenith just about the same date as thefoundation of the Lunda empire, and still survived when the latterhad fallen into decay ; they were originally immigrants from thenorth, from the neighbourhood of the Ubangi and 8hari rivers.North of them again are the far less civilized BaSongo Meno, with PLATE X.

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