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Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Fig. 198.—Palm clotli witli inwovuii patterns iioiu tliu Kwilu.u and c. BaPindi, h. BaBunda. huts are found amongst some tribes in the south and oast andbeyond (Lovale, BaTetela, BaBiho, &c,): elsewhere the buildings arerectangular. Pile-dwellings exist among the BaLolo. The tribesof the Kasai watershed and the BaLuba are craftsmen of nomean order; while the BuShongo, in wood-carving and cloth 222 AFRICA embroidoiy, f;i.v siupivss ivny other African people (Pis. X iindXI and figs. 15, 190, 198, and 194). Most tribes work ironand copper (the last coming from the Katanga), and the mostskilful smiths are the Kioko, BaLnba, BiiShongo, BaYanzi. andsome tribes of Angola. The art of the BuShongo is remarkable:not only are their wood-carvings exceedingly graceful in outline
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Fig. 199.—Objects from the Kvvilu district, a. BaBunda hunting-whistle.h. BaYaka fetish mask. c. BaPindi hoe-handle. d. BaBunda sword, e.BaKwese basket. and covered with patterns of singular beauty, similar to theembroidered designs on their cloth (which often recall our LateKeltic period, PI. X), but the art of portraiture is practised amongstthem, and the wooden statues of their early kings are the moststriking products of indigenous African art (PI. XI). The two formsof culture in this district are illustrated by the weapons : in the westcentre and north the bow is almost the sole weapon: in the east PLATE XL

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