Word: watusi
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...Herzog of Columbia University, these discs constitute the best authentic anthology of African Negro music to be found on commercial phonograph records. Much of this music shows rhythmic resemblances to jazz, includes drums, flutes, xylophones and chanting by long-headed Congo Negroes, by the Mambuti Pygmies, and by the Watusi. a race of 7-ft. African giants living as feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers, each one hooting his single note in turn. The Babira Negroes of the Ituri Forest punctuate the high-pitched gargling of their...
...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...