Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 106
EASTERN ETHIOPIA 90 VII 1 It has been mentioned already that the term drum is usually restricted to sound-producing instruments in which a tense membrane, stretched across a hollow … In Uganda drums are used instead of bells to call the congregations to Avorship. cylinder, is set in vibration by hand or stick. The peculiar booming of a drum can be produced without the aid of a stretched membrane. The Gordon College, Khartoum, possesses a specimen of the remarkable
Natural history · Indigenous peoples · Ethnology
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