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S'OTKS OX ETHXOOKAI’HIC'AL Sl'Et'IMENS 
Comparison 
witli native 
Australians 
Musical 
instruments 
Tobacco 
pipes 
Native 
tobacco 
of the Bunin’s fighting equipment. The Nuer shield (Plate XLV., fig. 2) is pi'obably of the 
same form as that of the Burun. It is a slightly developed form of the simple parrying 
stick, grasped in the middle, and so swung about to ward off arrows. This specimen is little 
more than a part of a branch of a tree rounded at the ends, and thick enough to allow of 
the grip being cut in the solid wood. The throwing-sticks (Plate XLVI., figs. 2, 3, and 4), 
as is the case with other similar weapons found in Africa, bear a strong resemblance 
to the boomerang of the Australian native, and it is curious to find that the coils of rope or 
twine (Plate XLVII., figs. 9 and 10) worn round the neck by certain of the hill tribes of 
Burun also find their exact counterpart, both as to form and use, among the Australians. It 
is scarcely to be expected that dress should foian any considerable part of the collection, but 
the two specimens (Plate XLVII., figs. 2 and 3) are interesting from their likeness to the 
women’s dress among the Masai and also the Kaffirs, peoples who, in the opinion of many 
authorities, moved to the districts they now occupy from a more northerly part of the 
continent. Head-rests of a form almost identical with that in Plate XLVII., fig. 8, are found 
among the Nyam-nyams, and fig. 7 on the same Plato—a branch of a tree lopped so as to 
suggest an animal form—has its counterpart in a head-rest in the New Hebrides collection in 
the Eoyal Scottish Museum. The musical instruments are of the lyre type (Plate XLVI., 
tigs. 5 and 0), and are similar to the Dinka form [see Fig. 132), the strings being stretched 
to a fixed intch, and without tuning pegs. The whistle (“ chillong ”), fig. 7, is shown in 
Fig. 142 slung across the back of its Burun owner. Plate XLIV., figs. 1 and 2, are 
instruments for extracting the lower front teeth, and Plate XLIV., tigs. 7 and 8, are 
worn on the neck as charms. Fig. 7 combines a charm against lions with a charm to 
attract women, probably a valued possession in a tribe where the males are so very largely 
in the majority. Fig. 8 is a cure for dyspepsia. The mouse or rat trap (Plate XLVI., 
fig. 8) is identical in every respect with a trap from the Congo district in the Brussels 
iluseum. 
The Burun tobacco pipe (Plate 
XLVIII., fig. 5) has a clay bowl with 
a plain stem of wood jointed in the 
middle. Iron ribbon is wound round 
it at intervals, and the mouthpiece 
and bowl are each separated from the 
stem by a thin circle of copper. The 
hookah-shaped water pipe (Plate 
XLV III., fig. 7) is a form copied 
probably from the Arabs or from the 
neighbouring Gallas on the Abyssinian 
frontier. In Plate XLVIII., fig. 6, the 
stem is thicker and there is no metal 
covering, but the moutlqjiece is encased 
by a piece of the skin of the Nile 
Bichir (Polypterns). These Burun 
pipes differ from those of the Shilluk 
(Plate XLAHIL, figs. 3 and 4), which 
have a larger and rounder bowl with the characteristic gourd mouthpiece. This mouthpiece 
is tilled with bast or fine fibre, and after the pipe has been smoked for a time (mostly bj the 
women), the bast, which has become saturated with tobacco juice, is taken out and is 
chewed by the men. The double-bowled pijje (Plate XLVIII., fig. 4) is a somewhat rare 
form. On the same Plate, figs. 8 and 9 are snuff boxes made from the fruit of the Oncoba, 
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