BANTU NEGKOES 



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[f the fight has been with another tribe, or between strangers, the van- 

 quished party obtains a dog and cuts it in half. The delegates from 

 each side hold respectively the fronl and hind legs of the divided dog, 

 swearing peace and friendship over the half they hold. Some of the 

 Kavirondo people place a dead crow on the ground between the negotiating 

 parties whilst peace ceremonies are going on. 



They have bu1 few myths or traditions, or rather it would be more 

 corred to say thai none of these have ye\ been ascertained; bui Mr. Hobley 

 informs me thai their folk-lore, especially about beasts, is rallj as elaborate 

 as among other Bantu peoples of Uganda. In these stories the Orycteropus, 

 or ant bear, frequently figures. 



Their music is plaintive, and sometimes j it-try. They have no other instru- 

 ments but drums and a large lyre, of which an illustration is given (Fig. 101). 



Aa regards tinners, these are frequently held, and appear to be 

 divisible into four or five kinds. There is the dance given to celel 

 the birth of twins in a village. This i- said to be of an ture, 



though, as I have said before, the obscenity appears to lie in the 

 stereotyped gestures, and not in the thought.- or intentions of the people 

 at the time of dancing. It is danced by l>oth men and women. Secondly, 

 there is a death dance, which is also joined in by both sexes. If the 

 dead person is a man. every village which is represented at the dance 

 sends a bullock for the funeral feast. Mr. Hobley states I a third kind 



