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hoop sometimes two inches in diameter. They often adorn 

 the rim with many Uttle brass rings or beads sewn in with 



BAKANGO METHOD OF CATCHING HSH 



elephant hair. They wear before and behind a covering in 

 shape and size like a large water-lily leaf, neatly woven out 

 of dry corn-blades. 



The Bakango are a fisher-folk and employ rough stockades 

 in the form of cages which are driven between the rocks in the 

 rapids ; into these the fish are swept by the strong currents. 

 They also poison fish with the branches of a tree, called 

 M'bete, that exudes a poisonous juice when cut ; the branches 

 are placed in a backwater where the fish come and feed on the 

 juice which has the effect of blinding them. 



