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chipped away to leave a triangular depression. The lobes of the ear are enlarged, but the 

 lip-plug is not worn. The typical tribal mark is a row of scars down the cheeks from the 

 outer ends of the eyebrows: a third row may run down the middle of the forehead to 

 the bridge of the nose. 



The common dress consists of skin or cloth tobes and a short kilted petticoat. The 

 principal ornaments are necklaces of beads, shells, or disks cut from hippopotamus teeth, and 

 armlets of brass. The weapons are bow with barbed arrows, spears, assegais, knobkerries, and 

 small battle-axes. 



The villages consisb of oblong huts, with sloping thatched roofs continued as projecting 

 eaves. The walls are built of a kind of wattle and daub, supported by strong beams, which 

 are often carved and painted. The main articles of furniture are a bedstead, a series of 

 clay pots for corn, grass mats, and corn-mill. At each end of the village is a large hut, 

 known as the iwanza, which are used as a kind of common rooms one by the men, the other 

 by the women. 



The Wanyamwezi keep considerable herds of cattle, sheep, and donkeys, and they grow 

 crops of grain, sweet potatoes, and cassava. Their main food is porridge. They weave cloth 

 and baskets, and cut wooden bowls for milk. 



At birth there are no ceremonies of special interest or significance. Marriage is by 

 purchase, and burial consists in throwing the body into the nearest waste land, to be devoured 

 by the hyenas and vultures. When the Arabs first entered the Unyamwezi country, there 

 were constant feuds over this rule, owing to the effort of the natives to prevent the pollution 

 of the soil by the burial of the dead. 



THE WAZARAMO. 

 The Wazaramo occupy a tract of country, about 100 miles across in each direction, near the 



Photo by Mr. A. B. Fisher. 



A UGANDA WAN AND WOMAN IN NATIVE STYLE. 



