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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, Abavambo), the piano with ironkeys (e.g. fig. 201) in the west (BaTeke); a solitary specimen,with cane kejS and resonator made from a human skull, representsthe eastern division (fig. 210). Stringed instruments are rare exceptamong the BaTeke, Azandeh (fig. 211), and Abarambo. Gourdrattles are more common in the west, wicker in the east. Little isknown of the amusements of this region, though mancala (sec p. 202),almost certainly of recent introduction, is played by the Azandeh.Most tribes have a vague idea of a supreme sky-god, but the activeside of religion consists mainly in the jDropitiation of ancestralghosts (chiefly in the west), and of evil spirits (chiefly in the east).Amuletic fetishes are found throughout; those in the west areusually anthropomorphic, those in the east not. The poisonordeal and other forms of divination are very widespread. ThePygmies are nomad hunters, living in small circular beehive huts.For the most part they copy the dress, ornaments, &c., of the
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Fk;. 211.—Harp. Azandeh tribe, NE. Congo Free State. surrounding agricultural tribes, and are armed chiefly with thebow and poisoned arrows ; a few spears and iron heads for arrowsthey obtain from their neighl)ours. They live in small groupscentring round some expert hunter. They bury their dead, andsome of them appear to have a vague belief in transmigration. The next area to be described is very extensive, and embracesthat portion of Africa between the region last described and theAtlantic on the south, the Egyptian Sudan and Libyan desert onthe east, the Atlantic on the west, and the Mediterranean on thenorth. Though so large, it is represented in the Museum Gallery)>y comparative!)- small collections, and will therefore be treatedas shortly as the complicated nature of its ethnology admits. Three races are involved : the Negro (including l>oth the Negroand Bantu) in the south ; the Libyan or Berber ; and the immi-grant Semite (Arab) in the north. The Bantu enter but little

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