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The Mbole population (about 150,000 in 1989) belong to the peoples of the Mongo group. The Mbole inhabit the equitorial forest in northeastern Congo living on both sides of the Lomami.
The exhibition catalogue (Bral, 1984) contains photographs of winnowing trays, sieves and other baskets from the Mongo group. Mbole men make fish traps and weave wall and roof mats. Women weave baskets, sleeping mats and also smaller rectangular mats called losa in their language, Mbole-ena (Mantuba-Ngoma, 1989, p. 9).
The losa are decorated in a symmetrical way with design motifs denominated as kengo, that is tattoos, as they are also used in body tattooiing. Most frequently bands of strands in the two perpendicular directions are differently coloured to underline the design motifs.
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The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did. 
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