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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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e LowerSanga, the BaSanga ; and between the last and the Ubangi, theBaLoi and Bonjo. AH these tribes are Bantu, but a number ofnegro tribes are found in this section between the Upper Sangaand the Ubangi, such as the Ndri, Banziri, Togbo, Languasi, andManjia, of whom the Togbo are comparatively recent arrivals fromthe north-east. The eastern section comprises a far smaller percentage ofBantu peoples. The triangular point of land at the Ubangi-Congo confluence is inhabited by the BaBangi who have spreadfar down the Congo as traders. It is said that the BaYauzifound at Stanley Pool are in reality BaBangi, but this is at least ^ a 228 AFRICA uncertain. These BaYanzi differ cultiually in many respects fromthe BaYanzion the Kwilu, and there seems little in commonbetween the two exce2)t the name. No less enterprising arethe neighbouring BaNgala, of whom the inland section is calledNgombe: next come the BaPoto and then the BaSoko, northof whom are the many subtribes of the Ababua people. The
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Fig. 206.—Knives and axes from West Africa. «. Daliomi. b. Aslianti.c. Fang and other Gaboon tribes, d. Fang throwing-knife. e. Sheath of d(brass). /. Gaboon tribes, g. Dahomi. negro tribes are more numerous. East of the Ubangi and northof the Bantu are the Mongwandi. Sango, Watet, «S:c. ; north ofthe Welle is the great Azandeh nation (including the Abandia,Bombe. Makarka, and Mundu) whose eastern neighbours arethe Sakara ; on the west are the Dor, described in the sectionon the Nilotic tribes. On the Gribingi are the Sara, Gaberi, &c.South-east of the Azandeh are the Abarambo, Mangbetu, Mege,Maigo, Momfu, Abisanga, Mabode, and Bakumu. The history AFRICA 229 of the peoi)ling of this district is very obscure : the scatteredMomfu and Mege may have been the first arrivals, the formercoming from the east; the Abisanga may liave followed shortlyafter, and then the Mangbetu. who conquered the foregoingtribes and impo-ed their language and customs on them. Theexpansion of the Manglje

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