. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 62. -Frontal Ornamem of Pearls, Karagwe. (III. £.,5379-)the neck and arms the people bind various kinds ofstring, made of bast or of the hairs of cows tails, towhich they hang ornaments and amulets. For this 56 VICTORIA NYANZA. Fig. 63. — Neck-HAN i). i,\. (One-third natural size, III. E.,5392) purpose they use glass beads, great plugs, 8 inchesloner, made of hollow bamboo, filled with little sticks,small hippopotamus teeth, tusks of wild boars, bitsof cane, goats horns, peg
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 62. -Frontal Ornamem of Pearls, Karagwe. (III. £.,5379-)the neck and arms the people bind various kinds ofstring, made of bast or of the hairs of cows tails, towhich they hang ornaments and amulets. For this 56 VICTORIA NYANZA. Fig. 63. — Neck-HAN i). i,\. (One-third natural size, III. E.,5392) purpose they use glass beads, great plugs, 8 inchesloner, made of hollow bamboo, filled with little sticks,small hippopotamus teeth, tusks of wild boars, bitsof cane, goats horns, pegs of elephant or hippopotamusivory, with patterns scratched onthem, little iron bells, and the like(Fig. 64). It is worthy of remark ethnolo- gically, and it is typical of the Western Nyanza, that Weapons. .. , , all spears, lances and arrows have two blood-courses and brightly polished mid - rib, with exactly the same kind of edges. This is a peculiarity of the Wahuma, and recurs wherever we find the representatives of this race. The kind of fastening between point and stave is also similar among the different branches of the race. The circumstance that many spear-points occur inUganda and Kisiba which do notpossess the above peculiarity, buthave only a mid-rib, seems to meanother proof that Uganda andKisiba, which approac
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