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Title: Publications of the Folk-lore Society
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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Publisher: London : The Society
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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, or gave birth to Nzambi; and she brought forthmany children. We are told nothing more about the creation.The difference in colour between the black and white man isaccounted for by stories of the short-sightedness of the blackman. The best, perhaps, is that given on a later page. Then, we have tales which begin : A long, long time ago,before even our ancestors knew the use of fire, when they ategrass like the animals, etc., which then go on to tell how ariver-spirit first pointed out to them the mandioca root andthe banana. These I think go a long way to prove that theagricultural age was prior to the pastoral and hunting age.This river-spirit taught them the use of fire, and then camethe blacksmith, Mfuzi, (Loango, Funzi) and the iron andcopper age. I do not think the people north of the Congo can yet be said to * An ordinary knot in the grass means that some lady has marked theplace for a plantation, or that a passer-by has hidden something within acertain distance from that knot.
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A BAKUTU WHO CAME TO LOANGO TO SEE NZAMBI. Tofati p \g l 8 THE FOLKLORE OF THE FJORT. I!) bo in the Pastoral Age,* or to have passed through it, for, althoughthey do keep a few goats, and fowls, and sheep, their attentionis given more to the planting of mandioca, bananas, and potatoesthan to the care of animals. But they certainly are hunters.They are also manufacturers of native grass-cloth, of knives,arms, and ornaments of iron and copper, and of ornaments madefrom European silver coins. They gather cotton, and spin acoarse kind of thread, with which they make chinkutu, arm-bags,and netted capes for their princes. They make beautiful caps fromthe fibre of the pine-apple, and mats from the leaves of the fubu-tree. And all these goods they dye red, black and yellow.Earthenware pots, vases, carafes, moringos, and pipes they makefrom the black clay that abounds in the different valleys. Thefishermen make their own nets from the fibre of different trees,and floats from the bark of the ba

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