Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Old embroidered dancing-dress of palm-fibre. Ba-Ml)ala tribe ulBuShongo, Congo State. [Face i>. 21S AFRICA 219 whom they have to some extent intermingled, and the BaNkutu ;nortli of the hitter are the Akehi and a large number of tribes knownas BaLolo and Mongo. Scattered bands of pygmies are also foundin the forests of this region, especially in the BuShongo the Kasai and the Loange are the Bashilele, andTuKongo, both of whom are early branches of the BuShongopeople. Between the Loange and Kwango are a large number oftribes,BaBund
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Old embroidered dancing-dress of palm-fibre. Ba-Ml)ala tribe ulBuShongo, Congo State. [Face i>. 21S AFRICA 219 whom they have to some extent intermingled, and the BaNkutu ;nortli of the hitter are the Akehi and a large number of tribes knownas BaLolo and Mongo. Scattered bands of pygmies are also foundin the forests of this region, especially in the BuShongo the Kasai and the Loange are the Bashilele, andTuKongo, both of whom are early branches of the BuShongopeople. Between the Loange and Kwango are a large number oftribes,BaBunda. WaNgongo, BaSongo, BaSamba, BaMbala, BaYaka,BaHuana, and BaYanzi. The last two appear to be of northernorigin, and the BaHuana niay be related to the BaTeke of StanleyPool. Between the Kwango, the coast, the lo\ver Congo, and thepeoples of Angola are the BaKongo, including the Bashi Kongo,often wrongly called Muchi-Kongo, BaSundi. and Fig. 194.—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 agricultu
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