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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
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Fio. 1G2.—Wooden flutes from New Zealand. magic was practised by individuals, and also by the jiriests whenthe object was a hostile tribe. Human sacrifices were occasionallymade on important occasions (fig. 159). The Maori believed inan afterworld composed of various spheres where each soultook its i)osition according to its rank and personal merit.
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t;.);::-.-.:;;^; PARK LANDI I DESERT NORTHERN UMIT Or BANTU TRIBE Map B.—Africa. 183 AFRICA The population inhalnting the Continent of Africa may bedivided into five stocks: Libyan, Hamite, Himyarite (Semite),Negro and Bushman, exclusive of the modern European population,and the Indians and Chinese introduced by them. The first twohave been supposed by some to be related, if not identical, on theground that the Libyans speak a Hamitic language ; but linguisticevidence is by itself of very doubtful value, and the argumentsagainst such relationship are many and weighty. The Negropeoples may be divided into Negroes proper and Bantu. Theformer are the parent stock, and display great j^hysical uniformity,combined with extraordinary linguistic divergence ; the converseis true of the Bantu, all of whom speak dialects of one language.Negro and Bantu territory is separated by a line irregularly drawnfrom the mouth of the Rio del Rey in the west almost to meetthe Congo at about 21 deg. East,

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