Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ear (fig. 164. 19, 21) as aweapon is ])ractically universal, as are bows and arrows (exceptTumok, Galjeri, Sara). The knife with a ring-handle is charac-teristic of part of this area (Wute, Bali, Munshi, Montoil), andthrowing-knives are found locally (Gaberi, Sara, Laka, Tibbu), 1 This question is treated in Ciill in Antiqinties from Benin in Ike BritishMuseicm. 242 AFRICA also clubs Jind swovds (the latter amongst all the Lil>yan tribes).Shields are of vegetable substances (negroid tril)e8, fig. 103, a)and hide (Libyan, fig. 163, g); and chain-a
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ear (fig. 164. 19, 21) as aweapon is ])ractically universal, as are bows and arrows (exceptTumok, Galjeri, Sara). The knife with a ring-handle is charac-teristic of part of this area (Wute, Bali, Munshi, Montoil), andthrowing-knives are found locally (Gaberi, Sara, Laka, Tibbu), 1 This question is treated in Ciill in Antiqinties from Benin in Ike BritishMuseicm. 242 AFRICA also clubs Jind swovds (the latter amongst all the Lil>yan tribes).Shields are of vegetable substances (negroid tril)e8, fig. 103, a)and hide (Libyan, fig. 163, g); and chain-armour, introduced bythe Arabs, is seen occasionally in the Sudan. A military organiza-tion existed in some negro states (Dahomey, Ashanti, Yoruba)and the Amazon corps of Dahomey is Ainious. In the Cameruns,forest and coast area, government is by petty chiefs ; larger king-doms with a hierarchy of court officials are found among Bini, > i^ Fig. 223.—Type of drumcommon in British WestAfrica; the note can bealtered by pressing Fig. 224. -Drum sounded at human , West Africa. Dahomi, and Ashanti; patriarchal chiefs among the nomads anda democratic constitution amongst the Berbers. Marriage is bypurchase, and the dead are buried with varying ceremonies ; inmost cases the heir is the son (Bali, Ijo, Jekri, Bini, Yoruba,Kru), less often brother (Ewe, Tshi) or sisters son (Bube).Descent is reckoned in the female line by Ewe, Tshi, all highertype Sudanese negroes, and Tuareg. The game of mancala {secp. 202) is found throughout the whole area under various names,and all kinds of competitive sports are largely 2:)ractised. Drums(figs. 223, 224) are found everywhere except among the Bube ; AFRICA 243 also gongs of wood and iron, the former pattern being used inthe Cameruns for transmitting messages. Pianos (e. g. fig. 201)are found amongst Bali and Ikwe, and the xylophone amongstmost of the western tribes, notably the Mandingo. Harps(Cameruns, Bini, Liber
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