Identifier: uncivilizedraces01wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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(391) AMUSEMENTS OF THE WEEZEES. 3^5 behind and look on silently. Each danceends with a general shout of laughter orapplause, and then a fresh set of dancerstake their place on the strip of skin. Sometimes a variety is introduced intotheir dances. On one occasion the chief hada number of bowls filled with pombe and setin a row. The people took their grassbowls and filled them again and again fromthe jars, the chief setting the example, anddrinking more pombe than any of his sub-jects. When the bowls had circulated plen-tifiill)^ a couple of lads leaped into the circle,presenting a most fantastic appearance.They had tied zebra manes over their heads,and had furnished themselves with two longbark tubes like huge bassoons, into whichthey blew with all their might, accompan)^-ing their shouts with extravagant contor-tions of the limbs. As soon as the pombewas all gone, five drums were hung in aline upon a horizontal bar, and the per-former began to hammer them furiously.Inspired by the so

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