If you will look on your map of Africa, just below the equator and between longitude
11 degrees and 12 east, you will see where the Aponos dwell, a very honest,
irresponsible, light-headed set of natives. For several months each year this
tribe does nothing but dance, sing, and drink palm wine. When the wine season
is over they settle down to ordinary pursuits, and would find no place in this
book if it were not for the fact that one of their weird dances is performed
on stilts.
This entertainment is called the Ocuya, or Giant Dance. Ocuya is
made of wickerwork, with a big wooden head and wooden arms. Monkey skins
furnish the headdress, and a long skirt of grass-cloth hides the stilt-walker. It is
unnecessary to add that the native
must be a skilful stilt-walker to take the part of Ocuya.
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