. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 123.—Bundle of Banana-Leaves Fig. 124.—Bark Box. (One-fourthCONTAINING COFFEE-BEANS. (One- natural size, III. E., 5415.) fifth natural size, III. E., 4784.; times without ornament, sometimes enveloped in brass or copper wire, covered with leather or ornamented with cowrie-shells, tufts of hair and coloured bead-work. All these are held vertically in the protruding lips (Figs. 126, 127, 128, 129). Furthermore, there are lures, made of bottle gourds, which are held horizontally in blowing
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 123.—Bundle of Banana-Leaves Fig. 124.—Bark Box. (One-fourthCONTAINING COFFEE-BEANS. (One- natural size, III. E., 5415.) fifth natural size, III. E., 4784.; times without ornament, sometimes enveloped in brass or copper wire, covered with leather or ornamented with cowrie-shells, tufts of hair and coloured bead-work. All these are held vertically in the protruding lips (Figs. 126, 127, 128, 129). Furthermore, there are lures, made of bottle gourds, which are held horizontally in blowing (vide Uganda,p. 38). These also are either plain or adornedwrith cowries, strips of skin, and tufts of hair. Some consist of two parts fitting one into the other. In K/STBA 95 war. horns like this, also made of two pieces, come intouse as signal-horns. A large ox-horn is cut off shortnear the point, and a small antelope horn is inserted. (Fig. 130). The two parts are kept together by aleather band. The carefully-made ngoma, or drums, deserve our 96 VICTORIA NYANZA Drums. special attention. The kind which occurs most fre-quently is made of wood, on both sides ofwhich skin is stretched; these are kept in place by a number of twisted strips of leather stretched be-tween them. The drumsticks are made of wood thickly enveloped at the striking end with bast and rags. When used the drum is carried on a thick leather strap over the right shoulder, and is generally beaten as an accom- «f paniment to dancing. These « drums are also beaten in the s c canoes on the lake to stimulate ■5 the rowers. Besides these short «2 ones, the Wassiba also use o^ ngoma 3 feet high. These are formed of hollow tree-trunks, Jw with lizard-skin stretched at the 75 top and bottom (cf. Fig. 5). $ They are fastened underneath s the edges by means of wooden pegs, the tops of which do not protrude beyond the surface of £ the drum (v. Ushashi, inf
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