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many different colours lieiiig used in the })laiting, the result heing a really 

 ex(juisite ])iec'e of workmanship. AVooden spoons of quaint shape are cut 

 out of solid lilocks of < he same hard wood which is used for canoe planks, 

 and ladles ai-e made of the same material. I have already described the 

 making of bark-cloth and the wooden mallets (their sides scored with })arallel 

 ridges or a criss-cross tile-lik(^ surface). Long wooden receptacles are also 

 carved out of a solid block of wood, and are fitted with a rounded cap, 

 stopper, or lid. The favourite white wood of which these things are 



371. THE FIRST ATTEMPT OF UGANDA CARPENTERS TO MAIvE A WHEELED VEHICLE. 

 CART BELONGS TO THE PRIME MINISTER, APOLO) 



made is decorated with all manner of })atterns In' means of red-hot iron 

 implements. 



Basketivork is also much developed amongst these people, and is much 

 the same as that already described as in use among the Bahima. though 

 there is greater variety. Many of the plaited baskets of black and white 

 straw are charming in design. It is diflficult to realise that the exquisite 

 workmanship of some of these baskets comes from the hands of a coarse- 

 looking negro, ^ome of their workmanship makes one imagine tliat a 

 fine chainwork of bast or the stiff rind of palm niidrilis may have 



