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Encyclopedia Britannica



BAKALAI (BAIALE, BANGOUENS)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 226 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BAKALAI (BAIALE, BANGOUENS) , a Bantu negroid tribe inhabiting a wide
tract
  of French Congo between the river Ogowe and 2 S. They appear to be immigrants from the
south
 -
east
 , and have been supposed to be connected racially with the Galoa, one of the Mpongwe tribes and the
chief
  river-people of the Ogowe. The Bakalai have suffered much from the incursions of their neighbours the Fang, also arrivals from the
south
 -
east
 , and it may be that they migrated to their present abode under pressure from this people at an earlier date. They are keen hunters and were traders in slaves and rubber; the slave traffic' has been prohibited by the French authorities. Their women display considerable ingenuity in dressing their
hair
 , often taking a whole day to arrange a coiffure; the
hair
  is built up on a substructure of clay and a good deal of false hair incorporated; a coat of red, green or yellow pigment often completes the effect. The same colours are used to decorate the hut doors. The villages, some of which are fortified with palisades, are usually very dirty; chiefs and rich men own plantations which are situated at some distance from the
village
  and to which their womenfolk are sent in times of war. The Bakalai of Lake Isanga cremate their dead; those of the Upper Ogowe throw the bodies into the river, with the exception of those killed in war. The
body
  of a
chief
  is placed secretly in a hut erected in the depths of the forest, and the
village
  is deserted for that night, in some cases altogether; the slaves of the 'deceased are (or were) sacrificed, and his wives scourged and secluded in huts for a
week
 . " Natural " deaths are attributed to the machinations of a sorcerer, and the poison-
ordeal
  is often practised. Of their social organization little is known, but it appears that nearly all individuals refrain from eating the flesh of some particular animal.


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