BARI  , a tribe of Nilotic negroes, living on the

banks of the upper Nile some 200 M . N. of Albert Nyanza . They have as neighbours the Dinka to the north, the Madi to the south, and the Galla to the east . The men are tall and thin, the women fat and under middle height . Their colour is a deep dead brown . The men and unmarried girls go practically naked, the married • women wearing a goatskin dyed red . The body is ornamented with red clay and the lower incisors are often extracted . Their sole wealth is cattle and their chief food milk and blood; meat is only eaten when a cow happens to die . They live in round grass huts with conical roofs . Twins are considered unlucky, the mother is divorced by her husband and her family must refund part of the marriage-price . The dead are buried in the hut; a square grave is dug in which the body is arranged in a sitting position with the hands tied behind the back . The most important men in the country are the rainmakers, who are reverenced even more than the chiefs, and, indeed, are famous among the surrounding tribes .

The Bari warriors have been much recruited for the

Egyptian army and were formerly used as slave-hunters by the Arab traders . See Sir Samuel Baker, The Albert N'yanza (London, 1866) ; Friedrich Muller, Die Sprache der Bari (Vienna, 1864)'; G . Casati, Ten Years in Equatoria (London, 1891); W . Junker, Travels in Africa (English ed., 1890-1892) ; R . C . Owen, Bari Grammar (1908) .