Ten years in Equatoria; . ill by means ofrepeated rasping on the back of the skins, which are previouslymoistened and stretched by means of wooden pegs on the costume of dresses made of skin is taken from the traditional dress, however, that is still used by the greaternumber of people, and always worn at the recurrence of festivals andpublic functions, is made of the bark of the inhiuju or Jiciis is how the missionary AVilson, already mentioned, describesthe mode employed to render this bark tit to use as cloth : They make an incision round the trunk in a part
Ten years in Equatoria; . ill by means ofrepeated rasping on the back of the skins, which are previouslymoistened and stretched by means of wooden pegs on the costume of dresses made of skin is taken from the traditional dress, however, that is still used by the greaternumber of people, and always worn at the recurrence of festivals andpublic functions, is made of the bark of the inhiuju or Jiciis is how the missionary AVilson, already mentioned, describesthe mode employed to render this bark tit to use as cloth : They make an incision round the trunk in a part adapted for it,and another two or three feet lower down ; they then make a longi-tudinal cut between the two incisions, and lift the baik in such amanner as to preserve the cylindrical form. Having a thickness ofabout half an inch, they raise the surface with care, and the front part,that is generally spongy and full of water, they place on a long plankof hard and smooth wood, and there two or three men beat beat it with. MANUFACTURES. 269 with great force and i-apidity. These hammers are of thehardest wood and have theu- ends fluted, so that the stuff comes outlike morocco. The material stretches uuder this operation, and whenit has gained the required firmness it is hung up to dry. After thatthey cut the edges carefully and mend the holes that by chance mighthave been made by beating the bark. If the piece thus obtained isnot large enough to make a dress they join others to it. The treesfrom which they have taken the Imrk are immediately covered withbanana leaves, which are left on it till a new bark has formed on thewound. Various are the qualities of the nibngiL cloth. The most beautifuland the softest, of a dark red colour, comes from Uganda andMsoga, on the right bank of the Victoria Nile; the strongest ismade at Monyara, in the district of Mruli. Special artists attendto this manufacture, the production of which, though it is not veiyremunerative, nevertheles
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