Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ws (Angola, BuShongo), friction-drums (BaTetela, BuShongo, BaKete,Kwilu tribes, fig. 203, Angola), xylophones(BaSonge, BaTetela, BuShongo, BaKwese,and Angola), nose-flutes (Balluana), andbull-roarers (BuShongo) also occur. Themost common belief is in an evil spiritwhich is sujiposed to possess people and bytheir means cause death to others. Indi-viduals accused of possession are usuallysuljjected to a poison-ordeal: other meansof divination are too numerous to figures are very common, but usuallydepend for their power upon the medicin
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ws (Angola, BuShongo), friction-drums (BaTetela, BuShongo, BaKete,Kwilu tribes, fig. 203, Angola), xylophones(BaSonge, BaTetela, BuShongo, BaKwese,and Angola), nose-flutes (Balluana), andbull-roarers (BuShongo) also occur. Themost common belief is in an evil spiritwhich is sujiposed to possess people and bytheir means cause death to others. Indi-viduals accused of possession are usuallysuljjected to a poison-ordeal: other meansof divination are too numerous to figures are very common, but usuallydepend for their power upon the medicineapplied to them (fig. 205). Some tribesIjelieve in a supreme creator, and ancestor-worship, chiefly confined to the ancestorsof the chief, is found among those triljeswho have formed large states. Many, ifnot most, of these tribes believe that manpossesses a double soul, one element ofwhich leaves the body during sleep (thisexplains dreams), and the other only atdeath. Belief in transmigration is sporadicamongst the Kwilu and Kasai Fig. 205 .—Woodenfetish figure plas-tered with magicclay without wliiclithe figure has nosujxnnatural BaMbala,Kwilu River, CongoState. The next area is extensive and may be divided into two these the western comprises the negro and Bantu inhabitantsof the land drained by the Congo and its tributaries to the westof the Ubangi, and by the Ogowe Kiver (corresponding apjjroxi-niately to French territory south of 6 deg.). The eastern includesthe negro and Bantu triljes between the Congo and the equatoron the south, 6 deg. north on the north, the Nilotic tribes on theeast, and the Ubangi and Gribingi on the west. The collections illustrating the ethnograjjhy of the easternsection will be found on the eastern side of the Gallery, thoserelating to the western section opposite: the division is purelyarbitrary and necessitated only by considerations of space, for, AFRICA 227 etlinographically speaking, the one group merge
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