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74 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett
EKAWSO, 41 Selo Xingululu, Mani Mavungu, Fulula, Xiela, MBWAKA42, all of whom are
known to be imported from Kakongo. It has therefore been hard work to distinguish
those which were originally consecrated to the use solely of this district. For some time I
had seventeen on my list, but I find that Maquarsia, Ngoio, and Kondi Mamba are not
Zinkici Mbowu, so that I am left with the fourteen whose names I give you under all
reserve, as, after all, I may not have got at the true and original Bavili ones:-
1. Mambili, a figure of a man with nails driven into it, now a wreck at Ximoko.
2. Mamboni Pwati, figure of a man.
3. Mambika, a figure of a man.
4. Maleka,[1] a figure of a man (Pl. VIII).
5. Bixibula Xibula, a figure of a man, at Mpili.
6. Xilinga (?).
7. Lenga lenga, a man with knife.
8. Zambi inyona (?).
9. Ngembe,
43
10. Mvumvu Xioxilo,
a figure of a man.
44
a figure of a dog.
11. Pansu muinda, a figure of a man.
12. Boka miemvu, a figure of a man.
13. Lu siemu, a figure of a dog.
14. Mavungu Mambuembo, a figure of a man.
41 EKAWSO, see Seven Years among the Fjort, or Exeter Museum
42 MBWAKA, see Bentley, Pioneering in the Congo, p. 260
43 These are now in Europe and doing no good there, you may be sure, but certainly no harm
44 These are now in Europe and doing no good there, you may be sure, but certainly no harm
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