Ipunu

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Ipunu is an alternative name for the Punu people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily living in southern Gabon and neighboring regions of Central Africa.

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Ipunu canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
alternativeNameOf Punu people
artCollectionPresence major African art museums worldwide
colonialHistoryContext French Equatorial Africa
continent Africa
countryOfficialLanguageContext French in Gabon
cultivatedCrops cassava
maize
plantains
yams
culturalHeritageStatus part of Gabonese national culture
demographicStatusInGabon one of the significant Bantu groups in Gabon
ethnographicClassification Bantu peoples
surface form: Bantu people
famousFor white-faced masks
geographicEnvironment savanna-forest mosaic
tropical rainforest
kinshipSystem Bantu kinship patterns
languageFamily Bantu languages
languagePhylum Niger–Congo languages
languageSpoken Punu languages
surface form: Punu language
maskStyleInfluence Central African mask traditions
neighboringRegions Equatorial Guinea
Republic of the Congo
practicesAncestorVeneration true
primaryCountry Gabon
primaryRegionWithinCountry southern Gabon
region Central Africa
relatedEthnicGroups Eshira people
Lumbu people
Eshira people
surface form: Shira people

other Bantu peoples of Gabon
religiousChange Christianization in colonial and postcolonial periods
socialOrganization clan-based
traditionalArtForm mask carving
wood sculpture
traditionalEconomy fishing
hunting and gathering
subsistence agriculture
traditionalReligion African traditional religion
usesLanguageCode puu

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Punu hasAlternativeName Ipunu
Yipunu alternateName Ipunu