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lock gun carried over his shoulder. G. A native with cap, 

 coat, and trousers, bears on his shoulders two baskets, hung 

 on the end of a long pole. 7. A very well-carved hand 

 emerges from a cleft in the ivory and holds the body of a big 

 fish, transfixed on the prongs of a three-tined barbed spear. 

 8. An antelope. 9. Two natives, accompanied by a dog, 

 bear a third native in a hammock. 10. A native with a 

 staff carries on his head a chest with handles. 11. A big 

 elephant, perfect in every detail. 12. A dove perched on 

 the lower branch of a five-branched tree, to which a boy is 

 lashed and hangs half suspended, fixed by arm and leg with 

 a long rope. In front of the boy stands a bearded priest 

 with a single feather in his hair, about to attack the boy 

 with a big knife. 13. A native sitting in front of a thatched 

 house. He is making a fire under a pot placed on big stones, 

 and in the background rises a date palm in full fruit. 14. 

 A native holds a spear pointed downward over the back of a 

 small dog. 15. A big rhinoceros. 16. A native leading a 

 prisoner by a rope around his neck. 17. An antelope or 

 goat. 18. A coiled snake. 19. On one side of the tip is 

 an alligator with a native in its mouth, on the other side a 

 medicine man with knife, fetish, and plumed hat. 



In Loango the most ingenious method employed for 

 carrying elephant tusks consists of plaiting two rows of 

 vegetable fibre, about 4 in. apart, near the upper or hol- 

 low end of the tusk, and then connecting the fibres by a 

 plaited handle of the same material, so that the tusk can be 

 carried in the hand and hung up on a peg at the resting- 

 places. To keep a hollow tusk from drying out, and also 

 perhaps to facilitate its use for a musical instrument, some 

 pieces of rawhide are often shrunk over its edge. 



There is in the W. S. Cherry Collection, of the Los Angeles 

 County Museum, an ivory trumpet made in the Congo, 

 which is 4 ft. 4 in. long and has a circumference of 17 in. at 



