[Illustration: Kongo Negroes at a Mission School.]
These negroes also make baskets, bowls, pots, and wooden spoons. The
bowls and pots they make out of clay.
It is very warm all the year round in the Kongo Valley. So the people
wear very little clothing. They rub their bodies with palm oil.
They have a funny way of wearing their hair. While they are young
their hair is braided. Then it is twisted into all sorts of knots and
shapes. They do not untwist it, but keep it so always. They think
these queer knots and shapes are very pretty.
[Illustration: A Kongo Village.]
The women do all the hard work. They cook the food. They do the other
housework. They plant the corn and beans.
[Illustration: Headdress of Kongo Women.]
The men spend a great deal of time in fishing. They also hunt and kill
elephants to get their tusks for ivory. There are many elephants in
the Kongo Valley. They roam about in large herds. It must be a hard
task to kill an elephant!
One of the tribes in the Kongo Valley is called the Bangala tribe. The
men are tall and strong and fierce. They are always fighting with
other tribes. This makes the other tribes very much afraid of them.
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