The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan (1893)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · London, New York : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 108
78 ON THE ROAD TO THE RUINS they will not allow a white man to be present, so that what they do is still a mystery ; but we heard repeatedly the incident festivities after a death had taken place — the shouting, the dancing, and the hideous din of the ‘ tom-tom.’ One day a native … DRUM DECORATED WITH ‘BREAST PLAIN DRUM AND FURROW ’ PATTERN turned up at our camp with some curious carrot-like roots in his hand. On enquiry as to what he was going to do with them he replied that he was going to a funeral, and that they chewed this root and spat it out — for it is poisonous — at…
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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