Identifier: nativesofbritish00wern (find matches)
Title: The natives of British Central Africa
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Werner, Alice, 1859-1935
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sket is the mtanga,used for bringing in maize from the harvest-field, forcarrying provisions or anything else that will go intoit (being of convenient size and shape for carryingon the head), and, very often, for storing thingsinside the hut. It is made of flat slips of bamboo,woven at first as if for a mat; when a square of alittle more than a foot across is finished, the slipsarc turned up, the corners rounded, and the uprightpart of the basket woven in a circle, which is finishedby cutting off the ends at the top and enclosing therim between two thin bamboo hoops, sewn on withstrips of bark. Mtangas are made in several sizes,being both larger and smaller than the above; thediameter is always about equal to the height. Theyare very strong and serviceable, and Europeans findthem useful in many ways. The mtungwi is a doublebasket with flat wooden rims, one of which fits intothe other ; it is made of split bamboo, like the mtanga,but the slips are narrower, and both halves are rounded.
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