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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...
...gigantic, incredibly handsome Watusi tribesmen (featured at length in Dark Rapture); the pursuit and capture of a wild elephant (a sequence lifted bodily from the older film...
...Belgian Congo tribe of dark-skinned giants, the Watusi have been known to jump 8 ft.; but they tower 8 ft. tall and take off from anthills nearly a foot high. Les Steers is just a fraction over 6 ft. tall, and never uses an anthill. Yet he has gone on inching near & nearer to 7 ft. Last week, four days before the National Collegiate championships, Steers jumped 6 ft. 11 in. at the Pacific Coast v. Big Ten track meet. One of these days, the experts are ready to admit, Steers may tie the Watusi...
Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the 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...
Leila Roosevelt Denis, their native porters and a battery of ubiquitous cameras. In the course of their journey the Denis party discovered a race of giants, the Watusi, who look like Egyptian sculptures and dance like jitterbugs, and surprised a Pygmy tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures...