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THE CAMEROONS.
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are also embellished with carved fetishes; but the talent of the Ba-Kundu artists is displayed especially in the ornamentation of the "palaver houses," which,

Fig. 182. — Tribes of the Cameroons.

however, also serve as shambles. The warrior who has slain his foe, the woman who has given birth to a son, paint themselves in red to manifest their renown to the eyes of all. The chief occupation of the people is the weaving of nets and