General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . e hunters and, anion pastoraltribes, herders. Clothing is either of skin,hark cloth, or loom-woven plant fiber.The manufacture of a skin cloak is illus-trated by one of the figures in the groupto the left of the entrance: hark clothsfrom Uganda are shown in the fartherright-hand section of the hall, whilelooms and the completed garments are shown in the large central rectangle de-voted to Congo ethnology. The mostbeautiful of the last-mentioned productsare the pile cloths of the liakuba,woven by the men and suppl
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General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . e hunters and, anion pastoraltribes, herders. Clothing is either of skin, hark cloth, or loom-woven plant fiber.The manufacture of a skin cloak is illus-trated by one of the figures in the groupto the left of the entrance: hark clothsfrom Uganda are shown in the fartherright-hand section of the hall, whilelooms and the completed garments are shown in the large central rectangle de-voted to Congo ethnology. The mostbeautiful of the last-mentioned productsare the pile cloths of the liakuba, woven by the men and supplied withdecorative patterns by the women. Veryfine wooden goblets and other carvings, especially a series of ivories from theCongo, bear witness to the high artisticsense of the African native . who also cx- 166 IVORY HANDLEDSTEEL WEAPONSOF THE MANGBETU. The gre;itsickle-shaped kniveswere worn over theshoulder by lin-king and otherprominent men when lliev weresilting in council.parti) as proof ofthe wearers readi-ness to strike. Atother times theknives were pushedunder the helt. eel other primitive races in their love sauce period. It is doubtful to what ex- for music, which is shown by the variety tent the art may be considered native, of their musical instruments. The religious beliefs of the natives are A unique art is illustrated in the Benin illustrated by numerous fetiches and case in the farther section of the hall, charms, believed to give security in battle where the visitor will see bronze and or to avert evils. Ceremonial masks are brass castings made by a process similar shown, which were worn by the native to that used in Europe in the Renais- medicine-men. .67]