Word: watusi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Africa, a British missionary brought news. A photograph showed a long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have smashed by many an inch the present "world...