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Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
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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erit especial mention.The negro races are agriculturists and traders; the Fula,Tuareg, and Tibbu are pastoral nomads; the Berber agricul-turists. Trade flourishes in this area on a larger scale thanelsewhere in Africa. Manioc (forest area) maize and millet(parkland) and yams (Cross River) are the staple crops. Huts areIjoth rectangular (Cameruns, except the Shinga ; and coast, exceptthe Ikwe, as far as Liberia) and circular (Upper Benue, and Chaddrainage areas and part of Liberia). The higher type of negroesof the Sudan were in past times great builders, and constructedlarge mud-walled cities with a peculiar type of architecture.Hunting and tishing are practised everywhere. Horses, introducedinto the Sudan by the Fula, are found amongst the Bini, Yoruba,Mendi, Gaberi, Kibyen, and neighbours; camels are largely em-ployed )jy the Tuareg and Tibbu. Cannibalism is not common(Munshi, Ijo, Aro). Stone-working is represented by a peculiar Fig 221. -Large brass vase fromAsliaiiti. PLATE XIIt.
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Bronze headd of a girl wearing coral-bead head-dress. Benin, West Africa. (Face p. 240 AFRICA 241 ceremonial stool from the Yoriiba (fig. 214); not less interesting,though less remarkable owing to the softness of the material fromwhich they are made, are the steatite carvings found in the Mendicountry, which are probably the work of previous negro in-habitants (fig. 215). Iron-smelting and working are widespread,except among the Bube, who were living in the stone age at thetime of their discovery ; the Bini acquired the art of bronze cast-ing by the cire perdue process from the Portuguese of the sixteenthcentury 1 (PI. XIII and figs. 216 220). Brass (fig. 221) and goldworking and casting is largely practised in Ashanti. The best

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