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Volume 2 48 |
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A JU-JU IN ITS SANCTUARY PROTECTS AN ABBAM CHIEF |
TAR-BRUSHES THAT BLACKEN OLD BARBARY |
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| His ju-ju is a highly reverenced possession of almost every native. Very commonly it is made of wood, painted with coloured mud, and fashioned to represent the human form in which the abiding spirit was once incarnate. It is placed in a kind of decorated shrine, set outside the home for spiritual protection. The chief ornamentation of this one is achieved with trade tin dishes | This young negro mother and her picaninny are weapons of destiny. Negress slaves in the harem have changed the former governing Arab stock into weak-minded blackamoors. The pure-blooded Arab is becoming increasing scarce in Algeria |