Handbook to the ethnographical collections . —West Africantype of liarp. Fig. 203.—Friction-diiiin. BaYaka, KwiluRiver, Congo Free State. fig. 11>9, (1. BaLolo) and cluLs (BaTetela, Angola) are rare. Shieldsoccur sporadically, but tend to become obsolete. The tribes are governed either Ijy independent village chiefs AFRICA 225 (parts of Angola, BaMbala, Southern BaHuana, BaYanzi, Ba-Songo Meno, JBaNkutu, &c.), or by paramount chiefs administeringa wide tract of country through a hierarchy of officials (BaLuba,BaLunda, Bc^Tetela, BuShongo, Northern BaHuana, BaYanzi,BaKongo, &c.). Esj
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . —West Africantype of liarp. Fig. 203.—Friction-diiiin. BaYaka, KwiluRiver, Congo Free State. fig. 11>9, (1. BaLolo) and cluLs (BaTetela, Angola) are rare. Shieldsoccur sporadically, but tend to become obsolete. The tribes are governed either Ijy independent village chiefs AFRICA 225 (parts of Angola, BaMbala, Southern BaHuana, BaYanzi, Ba-Songo Meno, JBaNkutu, &c.), or by paramount chiefs administeringa wide tract of country through a hierarchy of officials (BaLuba,BaLunda, Bc^Tetela, BuShongo, Northern BaHuana, BaYanzi,BaKongo, &c.). Esj^ecially noteworthy are the empires es-tablished by Muata Yanvo (Lunda), Kazembe, Kasongo, and. Fiu. -Liiryo wooden curemonial State. EaTetela tribe, Msiri (BaLuba). and those on the Kwango (BaYaka), among theBuShongo, and at San Salvadoi-, the old capital of the kingdom ofKongo. The ollicial hierarcliy and the system of etiquette pre-vailing at the courts of some of these paramount chiefs (especiallyBuShongoJ are astonishingly elaborate. Marriage is by purchase,but the consent of the woman is in almost every case decayed form of totemism exists among the western BuShongo. K. Q 226 AFKICA Inheritance viiries, but tlu- descent of property Jiud rank in thefemale line is very common. Burial customs are various and arefrequently accompanied by human sacrifice. Gambling anddancing are the usual forms of amusement, and mancala {sec p. 202)is sporadic. Drums and gongs (fig. 200) are found almost every-where, and many tribes have evolved a system of telegraphy bymeans of the latter (wooden pattern), the BaTetela being themost adept. Pianos with iron or cane
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