3 Nkutshu Metal Currency Croquet Wickets Kusu Congo 07.05.009
They also traded them with their neighbours, the Basongo Meno, a group of Mongo origin. The
Nkutshu called them Konga or Kunga; among the Basongo Meno they were known as Boloko or Okano. The tribes mentioned considered them important objects and used them both in dowry payments and in the purchase of slaves and big animals. • 1 boloko bought a billy goat, • 2 boloko bought one goat or a man slave, • 3 boloko were worth a female slave, • 10 boloko constituted a normal dowry for a wife.
