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NATIVE OF THE DUALA DISTRICT PRACTISING HIS TRADE
| He manifests his artistic genius in executing carvings in wood, and, living in the vicinity of the European factories and missionary stations, has no lack of white customers for his wares. The Duala natives, together with their Bakwiri neighbors, are the best known of the Cameroon tribes. Typical Bantus, they take pride in their racial purity, and until recently regarded all half-castes as a disgrace |
NEGRO MUSIC-MAKERS SEARCHING FOR ELUSIVE MELODIES
| Most of the tribes of Equatorial Africa are devoted to music, and many are the strange devices which come under their category of musical instruments. These natives of French Cameroon have apparently expended much imagination upon their inventions, but, judging from the somewhat pathetic expressions on their faces, the weird noises produced are not altogether satisfactory |