Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 213.—Fetish figure coveredwith nails and knife-blades, eachof which represents a River, French Congo. 236 AFRICA tribes of New Calabar and with the Ibo to produce the popula-tion around Brass. North of the last are the Jekri and Sol)o,of whom the former seem to be related to the numerous Ibotribes; and the Bini, who seem to a certain extent connectedwith the Yoruba. West of the Bini are the Yoruba tribes whomoved south from the interior at the beginning of the eighteenthcentury ; at first they were a united people undor one s
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 213.—Fetish figure coveredwith nails and knife-blades, eachof which represents a River, French Congo. 236 AFRICA tribes of New Calabar and with the Ibo to produce the popula-tion around Brass. North of the last are the Jekri and Sol)o,of whom the former seem to be related to the numerous Ibotribes; and the Bini, who seem to a certain extent connectedwith the Yoruba. West of the Bini are the Yoruba tribes whomoved south from the interior at the beginning of the eighteenthcentury ; at first they were a united people undor one supremechief, but later the central control became weaker and movement of the Yoruba to the coast was a consequenceof the overrunning of the northern part of their territory by theHausa after the conquest of the latter l)y
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