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Encyclopedia Britannica



AFARS (DANAK;L)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 299 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AFARS (DANAK;L) , a tribe of African " Arabs " of Hamitic stock. They occupy the arid
coast
 -lands between Abyssinia and the sea. They claim to be Arabs, but are more akin to the Galla and Somali. The tribe is roughly divisible into a
pastoral
  and a
coast
 -dwelling group. Their religion is chiefly fetich and tree-
worship
 ; many, nominally, profess Mahommedanism. They are distinguished by narrow straight noses, thin lips and small pointed chins; their cheekbones are not prominent. They are more scantily clothed than the Abyssinians or Galla, wearing, generally, nothing but a waist-cloth. Their women, when quite
young
 , are pretty and graceful. Their huts are often tastefully decorated, the floors being spread with yellow mats, embroidered with red and violet designs. The
Afars
  are divided into many sub-tribes, each having an hereditary sultan, whose power is, however, limited. They are desperate fighters and in 1875 successfully resisted an attempt to bring them under Egyptian
rule
 . In 18831888, however, their most important sultan concluded treaties placing his country under Italian protection. The Afar region is now partly under Abyssinian and partly under Italian authority. The
Afars
  are also found in considerable numbers in French Somaliland. They have a saying " Guns are only useful to frighten cowards." They were formerly redoubtable pirates, but the descendants of these corsairs are now fishermen, and are the only sailors in the Red
Sea who hunt the
dugong
 .
See Fr. Scazamucci and E. H. Giglioli, Notizie sui Danakil (1884) ; P. Paulitschke, Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas (2 vols., Berlin, 1893-'896), and Die geographische Erforschung der Addl-Lander and Hardrs in Ost-Afrika (
Leipzig
 , 1884).


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