Among Congo cannibals

by John H. Weeks

INDEX

• Accidents, [331], [333]
• Adultery, [128], [161]
• African International Association, [20]
• Albinos, [325]
• Ancestors, [268]
• Arts and crafts, [83];
  • leather-work, [84];
  • string-making, [85];
  • bark-cloth, [86];
  • pottery, [87];
  • metal-work, [89], [90];
  • salt-making, [91];
  • songs, [93];
  • carpentering, [95]
• Astronomy, knowledge of, [141];
  • beliefs re sun, moon, and stars, [142]
• Bangala tribe, the, [18], [27], [161];
  • language, [48];
  • station, [48];
  • district, [161]
• Bantu tribe, the, [159], [160]
• Bark-cloth, [86]
• Barter, system of, [143];
  • and currency, [39]
• Belgian mal-administration, [20];
  • atrocities, [24], [25]
• “Bespoke” money, [123]
• Blood-brotherhood, [72], [73], [100], [226]
• Blood-feuds, [99], [181]
• Bokomela tribe, the, [31], [32]
• Bolobo, [202]
• Bomuna tribe, the, [161], [162], [163], [250]
• Bonjoko, [99]
• “Books,” superstitions concerning, [40], [46], [47], [74]
• Boys, training of, [143], [145]
• Brass rods, [39] n.
• Bread-making, [335]
• Bride-price, the, [123]
• Building, methods of, [65]
• Bumba, [34], [35]
• Bungundu Tribe, the, [28], [29], [30]
• Burial alive, [103], [320], [319];
  • burial customs, [104], [105]
• Bush-burning, [229], [230]
• “Bush-people,” the, [19]
• Cannibalism, [31], [69], [70], [78], [104]
• Charms, [145], [146], [147], [232], [255], [280], [287], [302]
• Child-bearing, beliefs concerning, [129], [130], [131]
• Children, twins, [130], [132], [133], [141], [273], [290]
• Circumcision, [298]
• Cloud-folk, [274]
• Coffins, [317]
• Congo boy in England, [79]
• Congo Free State, the, [20]
• Congo, reforms in the, [25];
  • Bolobo Mission, [28];
  • Basin, [159];
  • River, [161], [236]
• Cookery, difficulties of, [44];
  • native, [117]
• Corpses, decoration of, [316];
  • smoking of, [317]
• Counting, Boloki method of, [142], [339]-[348]
• Court of justice, [183]
• Crimes, native, [179]
• Curiosity, native, [74]
• Curses, native, [299]-[301]
• Customs, [26], [102], [103];
  • marriage, [122], [171], [179];
  • burial, [314]
• Crocodiles, [332]
• Dancing, [119], [120], [227], [321]
• Death, three causes of, [314];
  • life after, [321]
• Diboko (Nouvelles Anvers), [48], [161], [163]
• Diseases, [269], [325], [344], [345];
  • diagnosis of, [330]
• Disembodied spirits, [250], [263], [267]
• Divorce, [128]
• Dogs, hunting, [233]
• Dreams, [262]
• Drunkenness, [101]
• Eboko, [114], [126]
• Education, [75], [140], [143]
• Explosion, an, [316]
• Families, social status of, [170]
• Feasts, [104]
• Fetishes, [252]-[256];
  • fetish bell, [292], [302]
• Fish collecting for the Museum, [235];
  • traps, [236]-[244]
• Floods, [231]
• Folk-lore, [197]-[221]
• Food, [117], [160]
• Funeral ceremonies, [322]
• Game, [230], [231]
• Games, [149]-[158]
• Goats, present of two, [44]
• Government, democratic, of Boloki tribe, [172]
• Government, ideal of European, [26];
  • native, [169]
• Graves, [318]
• Healers of special diseases, [327]
• Hospitality, [117], [137]
• Hospitals, [334]
• Houses, native, [43]
• Human sacrifices, [97], [263]
• Hunting, [145], [229]-[234]
• Immorality, [147]
• Inheritance, laws of, [111], [182]
• Insanity, [173], [291]
• Islands, [165]
• Jando, [272]
• Judge, the chief, [179]
• Justice, native ideas of, [182];
  • court of, [183]-[186];
  • author as judge, [192];
  • typical cases, [193]-[196]
• Kiteke tribe, the, [257] n.
• Labour, [114]
• Libinza Lake, [161], [162], [163], [165]
• Land, communal rights of, [109]
• Language, “trade,” [48];
  • Bangala, [48], [50]-[54], [57]-[64], [336], [339]
• Laws, native, [170], [179]
• Leather-work, [84]
• Leopold II, King of Belgium, [20], [25]
• Longa, [107], [202], [249]
• Love philtres, [286]
• Lower Congo, the men of, [160], [162], [230], [246], [251], [254], [257], [267], [276], [230], [314], [335]
• Lupus in the Congo, [73] n.
• Makwata and his talking spear, [278]
• Manga, [100], [101]
• Mangumbe, [264]
• Massage, [327]
• Mata, [122], [170], [171];
  • Bwiki, [163], [169]
• Matadi, [19]
• Mayeya’s long dive, [277]
• Meat, mode of preserving, [232]
• Medicine men, and witch-doctors and magic, [95], [97], [102], [103], [232], [251], [258]
• Medicine, native, [327], [276], [280], [284], [293], [311], [324]
• Metal-work, [89], [90]
• Migration of native tribes, [162]
• Milk-brotherhood, [132]
• Mission on the Congo, [137]
• Mokwete, story of, [118]
• Monanga, [170]
• Monogamy, [138], [139]
• Monoka mwa Nkoi, [166]
• Monsembe District, the, [34], [36], [159], [163], [231]
• Monsters, mythical, [273]
• Mourning, signs of, [320], [321]
• Moon, beliefs concerning, [142], [248]
• Mother-in-law, the, [133], [134]
• Mungala Creek, the, [163], [164];
  • river, [164]
• Munyata, murder of, [164]
• Murder, punishment for, [181];
  • detection of murderer, [310]
• Musuku, [22]
• Natives, characteristics of, [17], [23], [24], [25], [117], [174], [176], [177]
• Nether world, the, [321]
• Nouvelles Anvers Station, [48], [161], [163]
• Nursing the sick, [316]
• Nzambi, [247]
• Omens, [131], [226], [227], [233], [262]
• Ordeals, poison, [182], [185]-[189];
  • various, [190], [191]
• Palavers, [191]
• Peace, the steamer, [27]
• Pictures, learning to read, [173]
• Pioneers, early Christian, [22] n.
• Polygamy, [125], [134], [135], [136], [139]
• Portuguese Roman Catholic Mission, [24] n.
• Pottery, [87]
• Purification, rite of, [102]
• Raiding expeditions, [166]
• Railways, the narrow-gauge, [19]
• Rain-doctors, [96], [280]
• Religious beliefs, [246], [249], [250], [251], [252], [254], [255], [257], [258], [263]
• Reincarnation, belief in, [130], [198]
• River rights, [110]
• Rivers: Congo, [161], [237];
  • Mobangi, [161];
  • Welle, [161];
  • Nrgiri, [165];
  • Mungala, [164]
• San Salvador, [17], [22], [258]
• Salt-making, [91]
• Salutations, [107]
• Skulls, use of, [323]
• Slaves, [110], [111], [113], [125], [170]
• Sleeping-sickness, treatment, [289]
• Smallpox, native cure for, [288]
• Smith, a native, [90]
• Snake omen, the, [131], [226]
• Songs, native, [92], [93], [120]
• Spirits: belief in, [98], [250], [261];
  • disembodied, [263];
  • fear of, [266];
  • deception of, [267];
  • effect of, [268];
  • of disease, [269], [325];
  • transference into criminals, [271], [282];
  • of wealth, [271];
  • of the bush, [274];
  • transference into spears, [274];
  • in trees, [275];
  • of the saucepan, [286];
  • possession, [328]
• Sport, native, [144], [239]
• Stanley Pool, [19]
• String-making, [85]
• Suicide, [322]
• Superstitions, [40], [46], [131], [167], [176], [197], [227], [232], [248], [323]
• Swimming, [144]
• Taboos, [84], [114], [294];
  • permanent, [196];
  • temporary, [297];
  • removal of, [298], [326]
• Tattooing, [140], [141], [167]
• Teeth, chiselling of, [141]
• Theft, [147], [175], [180];
  • detection of thief, [310]
• Time, system of reckoning, [142]
• Trade and currency, [114], [115], [143]
• Trade routes, [21], [22]
• Trading factories, [22]
• Transmigration, [197]
• Traps, game, [145], [233], [234], [236]
• Tribal marks, [167]
• Totems, [131], [132], [147], [294]
• Twins, treatment of, [130]
• “Undertakers,” native, [317]
• Upper Congo, [17], [49], [129], [230], [237], [246], [280], [332]
• Villages, [115]
• Virgins, [136]
• Vocabulary, collecting a, [50]-[54], [57]-[61]
• War, tribal, [68], [116];
  • the family fight, [222];
  • the town fight, [224]
• Weapons, [227], [228]
• Wine: sugar-cane, [100], [254], [322], [335];
  • palm, [335]
• Women: native treatment of, [77], [78], [95];
  • widows, [111], [117];
  • family life, [119];
  • marriage, [122]-[126];
  • divorce, [128];
  • quarrels about, [226];
  • disposal of widows, [111], [321];
  • mourning of widows, [321];
  • rights of wives, [125];
  • loan of wives, [125];
  • self-defence of wives, [126];
  • exchange of wives, [128], [264];
  • inherited wives, [182];
  • white, [347]
• Workmen, native, [81], [82]
• Zanzibaris, the, [20], [21]

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• Transcriber’s Notes:
  • Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
  • Typographical errors were silently corrected.
  • Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.