DAN, a light-skinned patrilineal people (formerly cannibal) sometimes known as the Jula cannibals, on the French Ivory coast and in Liberia in the basin of the upper Kavally. The villages are independent. Family property is joint with individual owner ship of personal possessions. They practise husbandry and arbori culture (millet, yarn, kola, coconut oil and rubber). They are animists and practise ordeal by poison and by boiling oil.
See M. S. Vendeix, "Ethnographie du Cercle de Man, Cote d'Ivoire," Revue Ethn. et Trad. pop. (1924) .