Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 172.—Lizard-skin drum. Lango tribe, Uganda Protectorate. and the dead are buried. Dor graves are the most elaborate, andconsist of a shaft containing a niche. The characteristic musicalinstruments of this neighbourhood are tlae side-blown horn ofivory (fig. 169, d) or wood and the whistle of horn. A fewstringed instruments occur (Dinka, Mittu, Acholi, Ja-Luo), anddrums (fig. 172) are common. Among the tribes practising agri-culture, most of religious thought centres round rain-making(Bari); the only tribe in which the religious beliefs are know
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 172.—Lizard-skin drum. Lango tribe, Uganda Protectorate. and the dead are buried. Dor graves are the most elaborate, andconsist of a shaft containing a niche. The characteristic musicalinstruments of this neighbourhood are tlae side-blown horn ofivory (fig. 169, d) or wood and the whistle of horn. A fewstringed instruments occur (Dinka, Mittu, Acholi, Ja-Luo), anddrums (fig. 172) are common. Among the tribes practising agri-culture, most of religious thought centres round rain-making(Bari); the only tribe in which the religious beliefs are known AFRICA 197 to any extent are the Dinka, who sacrifice to a creator namedDeng-Deet. On the whole, religious beliefs seem very primitiveand vague in this area. Closely connected racially and geographically with the Niloticnegroes are the transitional tribes spread over the country to the. Fifji. 173.—Lumbwa woman ami girl, sliowing dress and earand other ornaments. east of Victoria Nyanza, from the north of Lake Rudolf to about6 deg. south of the equator. The most interesting of these arethe Masai, who si>eak a language akin to Bari, but whoso physicalcharacters have been modified by the admixture of non-Niloticblood. It may be regarded as certain, both on physical andcultural grounds, that the race wliicli coml)ine<l witli the Niloticto produce tlie Masai is the Ilamitic Galla. The Masai extend 198 AFRICA over the greater part of this area, l)ut not many are foundnorth of Mt. Elgon. Allied to the Masai and possessing a similarwell-developed militar}^ system, are the Turkana and Siik roundLake Rudolf^ and the Nandi and Lumbwa, between Lake Baringoand Victoria Nyanza. With these should be classed, on linguisticand ethnographical grounds, the Karamojo, who are neverthelessphysically Bantu. All these tribes appear to be connectedthrough the Latuka with the Bari an
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