1891 - 92 .] Dr R. W. Felkin on the Wanyoro Tribe. 
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Manufactures . — Althougli the Wanyoro do not compare very 
favourably with the Waganda as artisans, yet a considerable amount 
of industry obtains in the country. 
Tanning . — The Wanyoro are expert tanners, and tbe dressed skins 
are supple in the extreme. The skins of cattle, goats, antelopes, and 
monkeys are all employed ; before being dried, they are pegged out 
upon the ground and carefully scraped. If the skins are to be 
employed for men’s dress, the hair is not removed ; if for women’s 
garments, it is removed, with the exception of a fringe at the edge. 
As soon as the skins are moderately dry they are rubbed with 
butter ; they are then frequently beaten between two flat stones. 
Should one skin not be sufficiently large to form a garment, several 
are sewn together with needles of home manufacture. These needles 
are rather rough, but are ingeniously made, the eye being formed by 
turning over one end of a piece of iron and beating its point into a 
small depression struck into the shaft of the needle. 
String . — This is usually formed from banana fibre, but sometimes 
the fibre of creepers is used. It is very finely woven and serves 
innumerable purposes ; sometimes it is plaited into mats and into 
bags, many kinds of the latter, from a heavy quality to a very fine 
and exquisitely woven variety, being manufactured. This twine, 
too, is used for the manufacture of bead ornaments, in which the 
Wanyoro exhibit considerable taste. 
Bark-cloth . — This is manufactured as in Uganda. 
Pottery . — The pottery in Unyoro is fairly good, though somewhat 
brittle. There are two varieties, a black and a red. The jars are 
mostly gourd-shaped, but oval and hemispherical bowls of various 
sizes are made. Uo flux is used. I have previously mentioned the 
pipes. 
Blacksmiths . — The smithy work in Unyoro is rough. Either a 
stone or a mass of iron is used as an anvil, the hammer being either 
an oval stone or an oval piece of iron. I only once saw a hammer 
with a handle. The bellows are constructed of two earthen pots, 
over the mouths of which pliable skins are fastened, having a hollow 
stick tied in the middle. Clay tubes from the pots conduct the 
draught to the hearth. The smelting-ovens are oval and conical, 
usually three or three and a half feet high. The Wanyoro have an 
apparatus made of wood for drawing out wire. 
