Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 197.—W^ooden cup from the BaYaka, Kwilu River. AFEICA 231 are expert hunters also: the chief food is manioc and, to a lessextent, maize, but meat is preferred. Canni])alism is very common(especially the BaTetela, N. BaMbala, BaHuana, and BaYanzi).Tobacco smoking and snuffing (fig. 191) are universal. Circular. Fig. 198.—Palm clotli witli inwovuii patterns iioiu tliu and c. BaPindi, h. BaBunda. huts are found amongst some tribes in the south and oast andbeyond (Lovale, BaTetela, BaBiho, &c,): elsewhere the buildings arerectangular. Pile-
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 197.—W^ooden cup from the BaYaka, Kwilu River. AFEICA 231 are expert hunters also: the chief food is manioc and, to a lessextent, maize, but meat is preferred. Canni])alism is very common(especially the BaTetela, N. BaMbala, BaHuana, and BaYanzi).Tobacco smoking and snuffing (fig. 191) are universal. Circular. Fig. 198.—Palm clotli witli inwovuii patterns iioiu tliu and c. BaPindi, h. BaBunda. huts are found amongst some tribes in the south and oast andbeyond (Lovale, BaTetela, BaBiho, &c,): elsewhere the buildings arerectangular. Pile-dwellings exist among the BaLolo. The tribesof the Kasai watershed and the BaLuba are craftsmen of nomean order; while the BuShongo, in wood-carving and cloth 222 AFRICA embroidoiy, f; siupivss ivny other African people (Pis. X iindXI and figs. 15, 190, 198, and 194). Most tribes work ironand copper (the last coming from the Katanga), and the mostskilful smiths are the Kioko, BaLnba, BiiShongo, BaYanzi. andsome tribes of Angola. The art of the BuShongo is remarkable:not only are their wood-carvings exceedingly graceful in outline
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