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Encyclopedia Britannica



BARI

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 400 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BARI , a tribe of Nilotic negroes, living on the banks of the upper Nile some 200 M. N. of Albert Nyanza. They have as neighbours the Dinka to the north, the Madi to the
south
 , and the Galla to the
east
 . The men are tall and thin, the women fat and under middle height. Their colour is a deep dead brown. The men and unmarried girls go practically naked, the married women wearing a goatskin dyed red. The
body
  is ornamented with red clay and the lower incisors are often extracted. Their sole wealth is cattle and their
chief
  food milk and blood;
meat
  is only eaten when a cow happens to die. They live in round grass huts with conical roofs. Twins are considered unlucky, the
mother
  is divorced by her husband and her family must refund
part
  of the
marriage
 -price. The dead are buried in the hut; a square grave is dug in which the
body
  is arranged in a sitting position with the hands tied behind the back. The most important men in the country are the rainmakers, who are reverenced even more than the chiefs, and, indeed, are famous among the surrounding tribes. The Bari warriors have been much recruited for the Egyptian army and were formerly used as slave-hunters by the Arab traders.
See Sir Samuel Baker, The Albert N'yanza (London, 1866) ;
Friedrich
  Muller, Die Sprache der Bari (Vienna, 1864)'; G. Casati, Ten Years in Equatoria (London, 1891); W. Junker, Travels in Africa (
English
  ed., 1890-1892) ; R. C. Owen, Bari Grammar (1908).


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