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in a five-volume worlt;l of hi* exploration* and discoveries noon to bo published Prof. Starr will make public a large number of new theories In re-l«rd to the African tribe* and will sh..u how his experience* upset the opinions of several of his predecessor*Many thousand* of native* were measured by the professor and hi* assistant, and something like a thousand photp-graph-phonograpit record* of native scene*. * eiemonlals, and songs were•WrttftWl. r'.‘Prof. Starr dlwcovered the “America t/’ cake walk among other thing*, lie further found, by Innumerable measurements, that African* are not long-headed,** a* I* declared In scientific work*, but “broad-headed.” The meaneMt tribe In Africa I* the Banpende and the most Interesting the Baschi*tile. * ; | ’ ; I“I have always liked tin* cake-walk since It* Introduction*” he wild, “and I *up|»o*ed it was the Invention of the American negroes under civilized conditions. But 1 found it In Africa, in a cannibal tribe. There were the same astonishing salutations, the elaborate striving for grace, the grimaces, thecarrying of the catie.and, In fact everything except the American cake. I regard this as a most Interesting find. The African cake-walk I* danced to music and hand* lapping“I cannot discus* the other dan* e* of Africa. For one thing, Anthony Comstock might hear about It. In fact, they are excessively and exceedingly obscene.“All the honk *) MM if A
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Jan 18, 1907
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