Dengesic

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The Dengese (also Ndengese or Ndengse ) are an ethnic group from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They belong to the Mongo ethnic group . The Dengese live mainly in the province of Kasai-Oriental and speak a Bantu language . Many of them are small farmers and grow cassava , bananas or kola nuts . Towards the end of the 20th century, they changed their traditional way of life. The farmers are increasingly growing cash crops , and many Dengese have moved to the cities to find work there.

The Dengese live north of the powerful Cuban Federation . Even though the Cuba Empire overtook Dengesis in terms of power and size, there was a time when it was the other way around. The two groups have some cultural similarities, so consuming beautiful garments made of raffia fibers and leopard skin , Zeremonialwaffen and musical instruments . Political power was in the hands of the upper class Totshi (also Ntochi, Itoci or Etotshi). These men were allowed to wear the marks of dignity. They wore a round headgear made of raphia fibers, which has a characteristic, protruding cylinder, as well as the ceremonial weapon Itapi . The Dengese are known for the representation of the Totshi as wooden statues . These are designed as a half-figure without legs and have the typical headgear. Some style elements are similar to the Cuba.

  • Headgear

  • Itapi ceremonial weapon

  • Wooden statue

Web links

Commons : Dengese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toyin Falola (ed.), Daniel Jean-Jacques (ed.): Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society , ABC-CLIO , 2015, ISBN 9781598846669 , p. 285 [1]
  2. ↑ James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313279188 , p. 423 [2]
  3. ^ A b Douglas Newton: Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas , Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1987, ISBN 9780870994616 , p. 102 [3]
  4. ↑ Jan Elsen: Tribal Arms Monographs Vol I / No.1 - Die Sichelwaffen Part 1 Verlag Tribal art, Brussels, 1996, ISBN 2-930169-01-X