. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . beseen that there are several differences. At Tunis, the musicians (all males) were eight innumber, and they sat upon their haunches in a crescentformation, in the following order. First, on the leftfacing us was a man with an earthenware drum (kurkutu)of which one side only was covered with parchment. Thedrum was placed upon the floor in front of him, and wasplayed with two straight pieces of stick, used so that theybeat the parchment with the flat and not with the were two men holding a pair of iron implem
. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . beseen that there are several differences. At Tunis, the musicians (all males) were eight innumber, and they sat upon their haunches in a crescentformation, in the following order. First, on the leftfacing us was a man with an earthenware drum (kurkutu)of which one side only was covered with parchment. Thedrum was placed upon the floor in front of him, and wasplayed with two straight pieces of stick, used so that theybeat the parchment with the flat and not with the were two men holding a pair of iron implements(karakab) in each hand, in shape like a double spoon, andclacking them together, the sound reminding one some-what of bones, though the karakab were held in thepalm of the hand, and not between different sat two men with large drums under their left arms, 282 ////• B IV OF THE BORI having pain timent on each side {ganga), their right hands playing with one piece oi straight stick, their left hands ing tiic pan hmenl so as to muffle or alter the
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