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Pistil

A pounding stick made of wood with a straight long handle and curved conical flat surface at the bottom used for pounding

Stool

A pounding stick made of wood with a straight long handle and curved conical flat surface at the bottom used for pounding

Storage

Basket curved round with a big stomach made of papyrus for storage

Hima Zithers

Trough zither; two pairs of caved horns on ends nine strings (Hima craftsman in his Kraal near Mbarara)in 1938

Bow Harps

Ekinanga or Ekihako 8 strings: sound- table rectangular; sound bowl deeply curved, covered with lizard skin 2 sound holes in skin. Neck of bow fixed through skin on underside of sound bowl, bow deeply curved

Lizard Lyre

Made in papyrus from Lake Bunyonyi by hands. The early people used it to cover them when sleeping

Toro

Wooden , anthropomorphic, Rafia wicker work behind Old card gives legend as- “Kahoita or Waizikza was an ogre who went about eating children. The ogre dressed in dried banana leaves and a mask-then became a sort of mumming show”(1942)

Spiked Wheel Trap

This is a trap of great antiquity, originating in Asia, known in early Egypt, Greece & Rome &found all down the Nile to uganda. The spiked wheel is buried just below the surface on a game path with a noose attached to a log over to. the spikes cause the animal to kick & pull tight the tethering rope, after which it can only hobble slowly until the hunter activities

Mallet to Castrate Calves, Sheep, Goat and Donkeys [karamojong]

Mallet Enyudu Wooden; most woods used. Carved to form cutting edge; used to castrate sheep, goats, calves and donkeys. Animal is laid on back, testicles localized within scrotum by two sticks and then pounded. Calves castrated after about 18 months and goats and rams after 12 months

Basket

Ngero Tanganyika Used for carrying