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Bamileke of the Cameroon:
The Bamileke people was originally from an area to the north known as Mbam. In the 17th century they moved southward and are currently in the grasslands of the Cameroon.
Today eight million Bamileke are primarily farmers, hunters and traders. Women are responsible for planting and harvesting due to the belief that women make the soil more fruitful.
The major crops grown are yams, peanuts, and maize. The men help with clearing the land and hunting.
The Bamileke people acknowledge their ancestors. Ancestral Nyama are embodied in the skulls of deceased ancestors. Skulls of ancestors are kept to give the spirits a place to reside to prevent them from causing trouble for the family. If a skull is not kept a ceremony must be done to compensate.
The Bamileke people are governed by a village chief who is supported by a council of elders. In the past, the chief was have supernatural powers that allowed him to turn into an elephant, buffalo, or leopard.
The chief is responsible for the protection of his people, dispensing supreme justice, and ensuring the fertility of the crops and fields.
Many of the items produce by the Bamileke people are associated with royal ceremonies. Most Bamileke statues represent the chief.
Material culture objects showed the position of a person hierarchy. As a person descended or ascended the social ladder the materials used and the number of pieces changed.
In a chief’s residence one would find ancestral figures and masks, as well as headdresses, bracelets, beaded thrones, pipes, necklaces, swords, horns, fans, elephant tusks, leopard skins, terracotta pots, and dishware.
All of this was used to assert the chief’s power. Beadwork, Necklaces and masks are common. Masks were decorated with copper, cowries shells, and beads. They were carved to represent male and female heads, buffalo, birds, elephant etc.
The elephant masks and the buffalo masks represented power and strength. Bamileke masks were usually worn during ceremonies and rituals such as funerals and annual festivals.
The art styles of the grassland people and are had to differentiate because of the complex migration patterns of the region.
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I finally made it to Trader Joe's, just a few blocks from my new apartment. Every once in a while you walk into a store and think, these guys have a good business plan. I arrived ten minutes prior to closing, and there was a flock of people who got off the bus across the street and sprinted in, visibly thankful to have made it before the doors shut. Inside were 300 customers and 250 employees, 549 pairs of really tight jeans, and 700 tattoos. The food is reasonably priced and incredibly well-packaged, it's impossible not to want to buy everything, especially food you'll never eat, so it can just sit in your pantry and look fucking beautiful. The trip inspired the attached craigslist ad.
ThePelt Trader pub round the back of Cannon St station. Excellent beers including Bristol Beer Factory, Moor Beer, etc. Ironically Kernel Pale Ale from Bermondsey only a few miles away is more expensive than Lagunitas IPA from the USA which is stronger and hoppier. Kernel beers are all good but soooo pricey.
Sibsey Trader Windmill is one of the few six-sailed mills remaining in England. The mill was built in 1877 by local millwrights Saundersons of Louth, in a typical Lincolnshire style, to replace a small post mill. It is not exceptionally tall, containing only six floors above ground, and the height to the top of the cap is 74 feet 3 inches. The slenderness of the tower, and the flat landscape in which it stands, together create the impression that it is bigger than it actually is, and make the sails, already admittedly large, look enormous.
Source: Sibseytradermill.co.uk