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National Geographic : 1951 Feb
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Only on Festival Days Does a Nuba Girl Wear Her Prized Ivory Nose Ring and Lip Plug For everyday use, she in serts smaller plugs made of wood, just to keep the holes open. Her ears are studded all the way around with small rings, clipped through the flesh. Cicatrices on her body were made in childhood by cutting the flesh and rubbing in wood ashes (page 253). When the girl weds, her suitor must pay a bride price to her father. Since she be longs to the Korongo tribe, it probably will amount to about six goats and three spears. The bride price is much higher in most of the Nuba tribes. Horn of a Giant Kudu, Blown by a Korongo Musician, Produces Resonant Bass Notes Other animal horns in addi tion to those of the kudu, an African antelope with grayish brown coat and vertical white stripes on its sides, are valued by Nuba music lovers. They also make primitive lyres, flutes, and gourd trumpets, to gether with a variety of drums. Nuba wrestlers and stick fighters march to the scene of their matches to the accom paniment of music and the beating of drums. At the big intervillage stick fights, how ever, such distractions are ruled out-all attention is cen tered on the contests. Georg Rlodger-AMagnum
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