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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 400 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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
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Madi to the south, and the Galla to the east . The men are tall and thin, the
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women fat and under
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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
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body is ornamented with red clay and the
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lower incisors are often extracted . Their
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sole
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wealth is cattle and their chief food milk and
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blood;
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meat is only eaten when a cow happens to die . They live in round grass huts with conical
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roofs . Twins are considered unlucky, the
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mother is divorced by her
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husband and her
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family must refund
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part of the
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marriage-price . The dead are buried in the hut; a square
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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

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

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Additional information and Comments

The socio economic activities discribed do not reflect that of the Bari. The Bari do not live Pastoralist way of live per say. It should be noted that Bari is large group comprising of many sub group. They do not move naked as stated. More research need to be conducted
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