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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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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fk;. 108.—Old wooden cup. BuShongo, Congo Free State. tribes, of which the most important are the BaMbala (chief tribe),BaNgendi, BaNgongo, and Isambo, the last of which is independent.The BuShongo are particularly interesting as the founders of anempire which reached its zenith just about the same date as thefoundation of the Lunda empire, and still survived when the latterhad fallen into decay ; they were originally immigrants from thenorth, from the neighbourhood of the Ubangi and 8hari rivers.North of them again are the far less civilized BaSongo Meno, with PLATE X.
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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 country.Between 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 BaBwende.

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