| Show ZULU jinrikisha MEN head eleva decorations that are as grotesque as they are ingenious Inse niom the zulu jinrikisha men are compelled by the english authorities to wear a uniform a white linen tunic and loose white trousers cut off above the knee they were like children playing at bo horse rr in the nursery ancl they uttered continuous native partly like turtledoves turtle doves and partly like the balle luliah ejaculations at one of our african methodist camp meetings they all appeared very happy during this performance which continued so long that I 1 calculated the amount of energy expended to represent about ten miles of unpaid travel though the body dress was uniform there was magnificent diversity regarding head decoration oue one would wear a common straw hat hung around the brim with tamel 9 suggestive of a pagoda and the chief delight of the w wearer i ewer was in shaking his head bead for the pleasure plea suro of making the tassels cassels dance another had fastened a pair of cow horns horna ou on either side of his hia head bead immediately above the e ears and he be grinned at me so effusively that I 1 con concluded eluded he must have taken great pains with tho construction of this hideous headpiece the kinky top of a third had been interlaced with an aa enormous profusion of long strings of wool to which small fluffy balls were attached at short intervals the te lead bead of a negro negro so decorated looked like a huge black mop or one of those skye terrier dogs about whom one is fever never safe saab in ili saying which esthe other end in repose it is uncanny uncanny Y but when your jinrikisha zulu springs about in the shafts and throws his head bead epand down like a colt impatient of the lit bit the effect upon the newly ar rived is akin to what I 1 once experienced when aen a long black log of wood upon ali which c h I 1 proposed to rest myself turned out to be a hugo black snake resting from his gastronomic exercises poultney bigelow in harpers pers magazine |
