Duchesne Record | 1911-04-28 | Page 6 | Wandering Buila Musician

WANDERING BUILA BUllA MUSICIAN i iThe ir r The photograph above Is of a wandering wandering wandering wan wan- dering musician of the Buila Bulla district British East Africa who closely corresponds corresponds corresponds cor cor- responds to the ancient minstrel He HeIs HeIs Heis Is the tribal historian and has in his knowledge all the traditions and songs of his people and is held In great repute and treated with all respect His instrument consists of iron keys key's e each ch separately attached to to hollow gourds of varying lengths length The white whitemark whitemark mark on each gourd is a hole very skillfully covered over with tho the web of ot a particular spider and is said to add greatly to the melodious sound of ot the instrument The keys are str struck ck with a stick sUck and this particular instrument in- in strument was in perfect harmony