Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910) (14783378775)

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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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hat the spirit of a deceased king was sujiposed by theBaGanda to reside in the lower jaw, which was kept in a specialhut; Baliima kings wore believed to become lions. Ordeals byl^oison and fire are found (Baliima, BaGanda, WaGogo). Thepeoples round the lake are very musical: Ikites, Iiorns, pan-pipes, pianos with iron keys (e. g. fig. 201), lyres, xylophones, and 206 AFRICA drums are common, and the game mancala is practically universal(sec p. 202). Eeligion consists in a more or less organizedworship of ancestral spirits, especially those of chiefs, thoughthe BaGanda believe in certain great spirits of war and huntingwhich reside in certain horns (hg. 183). Human sacrifice wasparticularly prevalent in Uganda (fig. 31). Divination by variousmethods is widely jjractised, and magic to procure rain is general,more particularly among the southern tribes. The BaHimahave a special priesthood residing in the sacred forest to feed thelions, which are supposed to be the spirits of dead chiefs.

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Fig. 181. — a. Wooden milk-vessel, b. Pottery furnace for fumigatinga, which is inverted over the neck of b, and the grass in the Litterlighted. BaHima, Uganda Protectorate. From the southern peoples of the area last described, there is aneasy transition through the WaNyika, north of Nyassa, to thetribes between that lake, Tanganyika and Bangweolo. These arethe AwaNkonde to the north and north-west of Nyassa, theAMambwe to the north-east of the last, the ALungu south andsouth-west of Tanganyika, the Waltawa between the last andMweru, the AWemba, including the BaBisa, north and east ofBangweolo. West of Nyassa are the BaTumbuka, including theATonga ; round the south end of Nyassa and down the Shireto the Zambesi live the MaNganja, including the ASenga, AMaravi,AChipeta, MaChinjiri, and AChewa, the first extending as far westas the Loangwa. With these may be considered the AChikunda,a mongrel stock, settled on the Shire by the Portuguese. West AFRICA 207 of the Shire are found peojjle

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