Notes on the Baamba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8033435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E J Wayland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1929 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 517-517 |
| Publication date | 1929-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-3114 • E-ISSN: 2397-2556 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2843897 |
| OpenAlex | W2252496483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THE Baamba, as dealt with in these notes, are a comparatively little-known people living on the northern Semliki2 plains, and on the north-western foot-hills of Ruwenzori-if one may speak of foot-hills in connection with this mountain. They are essentially forest-folk, and although some of them live on the range, it would appear that they are not a mountain tribe ;3 nor could I find that they claim to have been one at any time. The following notes were collected by me about six years ago, during a visit to the Semliki Valley, and may now be regarded as supplementary to an account of the Bambwa (Bamba or Bwamba) given by the Rev. J. Roscoe (The Bagesu, Cambridge, 1924, pp. 147-155). This author writes, almost invariably, in the past tense; I have recorded these notes as I received the information in the present tense. I had hoped to re-visit the Semliki area and to add to these notes, but circumstances have rendered this impossible, for some time to come at any rate. The information collected by me was in effect checked, and in some measure added to, by the Rev. Archdeacon Lloyd, late of the Church Missionary Society, who, during my absence, kindly questioned for me Baamba folk who had come over the range into Toro proper. Archdeacon Lloyd's enquiries were undertaken without reference to any of my results. The notes, which were not made with a view to publication, are given for the little they may be worth. I claim no special acquaintance with ethnology; moreover, because the time which I could devote to anthropological enquiries was extremely limited, and my visit to the Buamba country was a short one, I considered it desirable to leave several matters untouched till, on some future occasion, I could go into them thoroughly. The principal matters thus postponed are ceremonies connected with birth, burial, secret societies, sowing and harvesting, and rain-making. Indeed, I did not regard my
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