Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 219.— Bronze plaqueshowing European in sixteen tli-century dress. Benin, WestAfrica. Fig. 220.—Bronze plaqueshowing Spanish soldier insixteenth-century dress withmatchlock. Benin, WestAfrica. Atlantic. The Hausa states, consisting originally of the seventowns of Biram, Gober, Kano, Eano, Zaria, Katsena, and Daura,were oiiginally peopled ))y a negro race apparently similar to theearly Songhai; they were conquered at the end of the tenthcentury l>y another negroid j^eople of n^ysterious allinities comingfrom the east, who founded an empire las
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 219.— Bronze plaqueshowing European in sixteen tli-century dress. Benin, WestAfrica. Fig. 220.—Bronze plaqueshowing Spanish soldier insixteenth-century dress withmatchlock. Benin, WestAfrica. Atlantic. The Hausa states, consisting originally of the seventowns of Biram, Gober, Kano, Eano, Zaria, Katsena, and Daura,were oiiginally peopled ))y a negro race apparently similar to theearly Songhai; they were conquered at the end of the tenthcentury l>y another negroid j^eople of n^ysterious allinities comingfrom the east, who founded an empire lasting (with intervals suchas the conquest Ijy the Songhai in ir>12, and by the Moors in 1595)until tliey weio subjected l>y the Fula in 1807. The states ofBornu to the east of the Hausa, and of Kanem to the north-east 240 AFRICA. of Lake Chad, are peopled by Kanuri and Kanembu respectively,both of whom contain a Libyan (2>rol)abIy Tib))u) strain ; theBagirmi to the south of Kanem are more negroid, and form a linkbetween the central Sudanese negro and the negroes of CentralAfrica. The people of Wadai are the Tama and Massalit negroes,and the Maba, who are a mixture of Negro, Tula and Arab. In this division clothing is fur-nished almost entirely by the itfll^/t ^^S®^^^-*^® kingdom, though the iBLP^ ^Jl ,^ Bube formerly wore skins, and XjtW^^K^j/^ amongst the inland and desert MPft_jR JMJy tribes becomes very complete. Here the Tohe or wide-sleevedtunic is the typical costume, withor without trousers. Tuareg menand many Fula and Tibbu weara veil illtham) which covers thelower part of the face, and isnever removed. Cicatrization isfound throughout the dark-skinned peoples ; tatu among thefair-skinned. Nose and lip orna-ments are found chiefly on theUpper Benue and Chad drainageareas, and tooth-mutilation isco
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