BANTU NEGROES 



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or of innumerable circlets of shells from a kind of fresh-water mussel. 

 These thin segments are drilled with a hole in the middle and packed 



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317. A MUKONJO MAX FROM THE SOUTH OF RUWENZOEI 



closely together on the string. I have never observed amongst the 

 Bakonjo any piercing of the ear lobe or wearing of ear-rings. In such 

 points as these they follow the same customs as the Bahima. Rings of 



