BAGA, a coarse-featured people related to the Nalu and Landuman who practise scarification. They live on the coast of French Guinea between Cape Verga and Konakri in independent villages by unhealthy swamps. There are traces of totemism. Marriage is obligatory between (i.) the husband's brothers and his wife's sisters, and (ii.) the younger brother or nephew and the widow. Polygamy is allowed. The first wife has superior standing in the community. Inheritance passes in the maternal line; family ownership of property is combined with individual possession of personalty. They practise husbandry and abori culture (rice, banana, cabbage-palm, kola), most of the labour falling on the women. The dead are exposed, before being buried in sacred groves, and some of their grain and parts of their personal possessions are collected in their houses which are then burnt. They are animists. See Arcin, La Guinee Franfaise