The races of man : an outline of anthropology and ethnography / by J. Deniker.

  • Deniker, Joseph, 1852-1918.
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[1900]
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    nke signifying “people” in the Mande language) form a compact linguistic group whose domain extends from the Senegal and Upper Niger to that portion of the West African coast comprised between Saint Louis and Monrovia. The domain of the Mande language extends much farther to the east than the territory of the Mandenke peoples properly so called; it en¬ circles Timbuctoo, the countries of the Gurma and the Diumma, where it competes with the dialect of the Fulahs, and encroaches even on the domain of the Dogomba and the Fig. 140.—Bonna M’Bane, Mandingan-Sosse; height, im. 74; ceph. ind., 74.7; nasal index, 102. {Phot. Collignon.) Gonja (to the north of Salaga), where the Hausa speech prevails. The Mandenke properly so called includes a large number of tribes, which may be divided into two great clans: the Bamma or Bambara, whose “tenne” or totem is the crocodile, and the Malinke (hippopotamus totem). The Mandenke are Mussulmans, except the clan Bamma or Bambara of the basin of the upper Niger, which has remained fetichist. Related to the Mandenke, according to their dialects, are the Sotiitike of the interior and many other populations of