Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fif;. Ba-Mbala, Kwilu River. Fig. 192.—Wooden 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 of them are the BaTetela people, including tlje Ba-Kussu and MaNyema who hav

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Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fif;. Ba-Mbala, Kwilu River. Fig. 192.—Wooden 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 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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