Word: bahutu
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Above Lake Tanganyika's blue waters the Bahutu or Wahutu (singular Muhutu) were minding their own business 300 years ago when the Batutsi or Watusi (singular: Mututsi) wandered in, probably from Abyssinia. The Batutsi announced that hereafter they would run the twin kingdoms of Ruanda-Urundi, and look after the Bahutu. Because the Batutsi brought with them wondrous long-horned cattle and because they were seven feet tall, the Bahutu did not argue the point...
...Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...former years many specimens and several important collections have been received as gifts. Of special interest is the collection brought together by Dr. Phillips while traveling among the various times of the leganda region in East Africa in 1923-24. Among the groups represented are the Mad Watusi, Bahutu, Bazanda, Bamboosa, and Wambuti. Dr. Phillips also presented the Museum with very fine collection of photographs taken during the expedition, showing the people, their villages, houses, and various occupations...