THE WAWAMBA. 



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the extremely rough tools which they possess. 

 They usually attach some kind of charm to the 

 top of the roof. On my way back I noticed with 

 some pride a bottle bearing the legend "Lennox, 

 Dumfries," attached to a chief's house ! Their 

 hair is worn very short, and usually in tiny 

 curls a quarter of an inch long. They often 

 leave bare places amongst these curls, so as to 

 shave a pattern on the scalp. They all wear a 

 necklace, from which 

 hang leopards' teeth, 

 carved bits of wood, 

 and other extraordi- 

 nary articles. The 

 men often have 

 bangles, frequently 

 arranged as shown 

 in the figure, and 

 almost always ank- 

 lets. The women 

 wear rings on the 

 legs. 



They seem fond of music, and manage to pro- 

 duce really melodious little tunes out of extremely 

 primitive instruments. One of these is a kind 

 of harp, made with a sounding box of gourd. 

 Another is a very primitive flute, which is simply 

 a hollow tube of wood with three or four holes 

 bored at one end, and a mouthpiece with a small 

 semicircular cut in the rim at the other. The 



Fig. 24. — Wawamba Abticles. 



