. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . Fig. 32.—A Guitar or Gimbiri. Fig. 33.—A Vase-shaped Drum orDttrubuka used atTripoli. Playedwith the openHand being a fly. At the dances, which were arranged speciallyfor me, there were two men with karakab, and one with agimbiri, a kind of guitar. At Tripoli there were differences. On the extreme leftsat an old man—the only member of his sex—with agimbiri, next to him was a woman with a kurkutu, andthe fifth one had a similar instrument. The third, fourth,sixth, and ninth musicians had a durubuka each, „an 284 THE BAN
. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . Fig. 32.—A Guitar or Gimbiri. Fig. 33.—A Vase-shaped Drum orDttrubuka used atTripoli. Playedwith the openHand being a fly. At the dances, which were arranged speciallyfor me, there were two men with karakab, and one with agimbiri, a kind of guitar. At Tripoli there were differences. On the extreme leftsat an old man—the only member of his sex—with agimbiri, next to him was a woman with a kurkutu, andthe fifth one had a similar instrument. The third, fourth,sixth, and ninth musicians had a durubuka each, „an 284 THE BAN OF THE BORI earthenware vase with parchment over the open bottom,played with the right hand. The seventh had an upturned• alabasb which she beal rapidly with two straight sticks, and the eighth had a rattle. In , ;i violin is always used, in fact that and theupturned calabash are usually the only instruments ofmusic, not even the drum being seen. The durubuka,kurkutu, karakab, rattle, and gimbiri are Arab instru-ments, though many kinds of drums, stringed instrumentsand rattles are
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