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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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Fig. 170.—Nilotic shields. 1. Wood, Mundu, 2. Wood, Dinka.o. Hide, Lango. 4. Hide, Dor. typical tribes (Shilluk, Dinka, Alur, Acholi), while in the south-west and south-east are signs of admixture with Zandeh andHamitic peoj^les respectively. The iSilotic tribes are distini^uished bv the extreme scantiness AFRICA 195 of their clothing, men and unmarried girls go as a rule completelynude, and married women wear merely an ornamented goatskinor a fibre tail to mark their superior jDOsition. Most tribesextract the lower incisors and pierce the lips for ornaments (fig. 19).Hair-dressing and head-dresses are varied and often very elaborate.Armlets of iron and ivory and necklaces of beads made fromostrich egg-shell are the chief ornaments. Circumcision is notfound. The principal occupation of these tribes is cattle-breeding,though the Dor, Jur, and Ja-Luo are mainly smiths and agri-
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171. — Ja-Luo warriors witJi featlur head-dresses,shields and speais. Kavii-ondo. culturists. Milk is the chief article of diet among the pastoraltribes, of whom the Dinka are the chief. Fishing is largelypractised ; huts are throughout circular with conical or domedroofs, and pile-houses are found (Nuer). Tobacco is much smoked,many of the pipes being of enormous size (figs. 167, 168). The Jur and Dor are skilful smelters and workers of iron (fig.12), and baskets and wooden pillows are found amongst mosttribes. Art is chielly limited to the rude geometrical paintings onAcholi huts, the memorial figures carved by the Dor, and the claymodels of cattle made by the Dinka. The cliief weapons are the club, socketed spear and bow ; butwrist-knives (Acholi, Jibbeh, Latuka, fig. 169, c), spiktd wristlets <J 3 196 AFRICA (Mittu, fig. 1G9,«) and thro wing-knives (Nuor) are also found.The Ja-Luo alone use swords of the Masai pattern. Smallparrying-shields (fig. 170) of wood (Dinka, Mundu)

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