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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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The little-known Munshi, Yergum andMontoil of the Benue, the Kibyen,Sura and Rukuba of Bauchi pro-vince, Northern Nigeria and themany tribes between the last andLake Chad, of which little but thenames are known, seem to show anaffinity with this group ; to the lastalso are related the tribes of theShari watershed, some of whom wereincluded in the area last described(Ndri, Mandia, &c.); the othersare the Laka, Uia-uia, Awaka,Akunga, Tumok, Gaberi, and Sara.The Buduma of the shores andislands of Lake Chad must also beincluded. These tribes are littleknown and appear to be relatedto the negroes of the higher culture on the one side, and (perhaps more closely) to the Nilotic peopleson the other. To return to the coast: in Southern Nigeria arefound, amongst others, the Ekoi, Ikwi, Efik and Akunakuna, Aroand Inokun on the Cross River, and to the west the I))il)io, ofwhom the Efik are an offshoot ; beyond are the Andoni and I jo,the latter of whom have mixed with the Efik to produce the
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Fig. 213.—Fetish figure coveredwith nails and knife-blades, eachof which represents a petition.Chiloango 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 weaker.The 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 Fula.

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