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MANGBETTU (Monbuttu)
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See also:MANGBETTU (Monbuttu) , a See also:negroid See also:people of Central See also:Africa living to the See also:south of the Niam-Niam in the Welle See also:district of Belgian See also:Congo. They number about a million. Their See also:country is a table-See also:land at an See also:altitude of 2500 to 2800 ft. Despite its abundant See also:animal See also:life, luxuriant vegetation and See also:rich crops of See also:plantain and oil-See also:palm, the Mangbettu have been some of the most inveterate cannibals in Africa; but since the Congo See also:State established posts in the country (c. 1895) considerable efforts have been made to See also:stamp out See also:cannibalism. Physically the Mangbettu differ greatly from their See also:negro neighbours. They are not so See also:black and their faces are less negroid, many having quite aquiline noses. The See also:beard, too, is See also:fuller than in most negroes. They appear to have imposed their See also:language and customs on the surrounding tribes, the Mundu, Abisanga, &c. Once a consider-able See also:power, they have practically disappeared as far as the See also:original stock is concerned; their language and culture, however, remain, maintained by their subjects, with whom they have to a large extent intermixed. The men See also:wear bark See also:cloth, the See also:art of See also:weaving being unknown, the See also:women a See also:simple See also:loin cloth, often not that. Both sexes paint the See also:body in elaborate designs. As potters, sculptors, boatbuilders and masons the Mangbettu have had few rivals in Africa. Their huts, with pointed See also:roofs, were not only larger and better built, but were cleaner than those of their neighbours, and some of their more important buildings were of See also:great See also:size and exhibited some skill in See also:architecture.
See G. A. See also:Schweinfurth, See also:Heart of Africa (1874); W. See also:Junker, Travels in Africa (189o) ; G. Casati, Ten Years in Equatoria (1891).
MANGEL-WURZEL, or See also: The so-called root consists of the much thickened See also:primary root together with the " hypocotyl," i.e. the original See also:stem between the root and the See also:seed-leaves. A transverse See also:section of the root shows a similar structure to the beet, namely a See also:series of concentric rings of firmer " woody " See also:tissue alternating with rings of soft thin-walled parenchymatous " bast-tissue " which often has a See also:crimson or yellowish tint. The root is a See also:store of See also:carbohydrate See also:food-stuff in the See also:form of See also:sugar, which is formed in the first See also:year of growth when the stem remains See also:short and bears a rosette of large leaves. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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