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SHILLUK , a See also:Negro See also:race of the upper See also:Nile valley, occupying the lands See also:west of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Nile from the See also:Sobat northward for about 36o m., and stretching westward to the territory of the See also:Baggara tribes. They are the most numerous of the Negro tribesof the Anglo-See also:Egyptian See also:Sudan, and See also:form one See also:great See also:family with the See also:Alur and See also:Acholi (q.v.) and others in the See also:south. Formerly extending as far See also:north as See also:Khartum and constituting a powerful Negro See also:kingdom, they are now decadent. They are the only race on the upper Nile recognizing one See also:chief as ruler of all the tribes, the chiefship passing invariably to the See also:sister's See also:child or some other relative on the See also:female See also:side. The Shilluk towns on the Nile See also:bank are usually placed near to one another. They own large herds of See also:cattle. In physique the Shilluks are typical Negroes and See also:jet See also:black. The men used to See also:wear nothing, the See also:women a See also:calf-skin attached to their See also:girdle, but with the See also:establishment of Anglo-Egyptian See also:control, c. 'goo, they gradually adopted clothes. The poorer See also:people smear themselves with ashes. They See also:ornament the See also:hair with grass and feathers in fantastic forms such as a See also:halo, See also:helmet, or even a broad-brimmed See also:hat. When they saw See also:Schweinfurth wearing a broad See also:felt hat they thought him one of them, and were amazed when he took it off. They are skilful as hunters, and especially as fishermen, spearing See also:fish while wading or from ambach rafts. Their arms are spears, See also:shields and clubs. Their See also:religion is a See also:kind of ancestor and nature See also:worship.
See G. A. Schweinfurth, See also:Heart of See also:Africa (1874) ; W. See also:Junker, Travels in Africa, Eng. ed. (See also:London, 189o-1892) ; The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:Count See also:Gleichen (London, 1905).
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