Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Wooden standing-cups. BaMbala tribe of BuShongo,Congo State. In this region the culture of the parkland merges into that otthe forest. In the east the BaTetela and BaLuba, in the souththe BaLunda, Kioko, Lovale, &c., represent the former. Theculture associated with the forest-area and its borders as opposedto that of the eastern and southern j^arkland is found in itsgreatest purity among the Kwilu tribes. Except the tribesmentioned as possessing the parkland culture, who wear skins,the peoples of this area wear palm-cloth; bark-cloth is known tothe
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Wooden standing-cups. BaMbala tribe of BuShongo,Congo State. In this region the culture of the parkland merges into that otthe forest. In the east the BaTetela and BaLuba, in the souththe BaLunda, Kioko, Lovale, &c., represent the former. Theculture associated with the forest-area and its borders as opposedto that of the eastern and southern j^arkland is found in itsgreatest purity among the Kwilu tribes. Except the tribesmentioned as possessing the parkland culture, who wear skins,the peoples of this area wear palm-cloth; bark-cloth is known tothe BuShongo. Hairdressing is often very elaborate and thevarieties are too numerous to mention. Painting with the Icd dustof the tulaiJa wood is common throughout the Kasai watershed,and cicatrization (figs. 24, 195) and tooth mutilation reachtheir most elaborate pitch in this area. Circumcision is nearlyuniversal and often, in the west usually, accomi)anied I>y iniliationinto a secret society. All these tribes arc agricultural and most.
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