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the Western Province are well-proportioned people, not (except on the 

 fringe of the Semliki Forest or on the shores of Lake Albert Edward) 

 exhibiting any want of proportion (according to our ideals) between the 

 body and the limbs. 

 Amongst the true Ban- 

 yoro the mouth is some- 

 times ugly because of 

 the protrusion of the 

 teeth in the upper jaw, 

 caused by the removal 

 of the lower incisors. 

 For the rest, the physical 

 characteristics of these 

 people can be sufficiently 

 ascertained by reference 

 to the photogi-aphs of 

 the principal types illus- 

 trating this chapter, and 

 by a glance at the anthro- 

 pometric observations at 

 the end of Chapter XIII. 

 Some of the Bakonjo 

 ornament the torso and 

 stomach (generally on 

 one or both sides) with 

 a cicatrisation arranged 

 in patterns. An ex- 

 ample of this is given on 

 p. 569. The southern 

 Bakonjo extend these 

 ornamental scars or weals 

 to the forearm. The true 

 Bakonjo neither file their 

 upper incisors to sharp 

 jioints nor do they ordi- 

 narily remove any of the 

 incisors. Circumcision 

 is not practised by them. 



The adornments of the body in the women offer one special -feature (some- 

 times also, seen in the men). Rioigs. of very finely plaited grass or fibre "^ 



* These, rings of finely plaited grass or fibre are also worn by the Baamba, both 

 men and women, but generally only on the left arm. 



315. TWO BAKONJO 



