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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25955, 8 November 1949, Page 3

“SHONNA ” (MEANING WEST WIND)

AFRICAN PIGMY MAN AT THE SHOW Shonna was shipped at Zanzibar, East Africa, and is a Uteri Forest Pigmy. He is 'a worshipper of Kam (the Sun), and when at its full the pigmies make offerings of parts of their kill. After rains they offer thanks to Kam, for rain means grass and grass means fat game and plenty ol food —zebra buck, warthog, giraffe, etc. Pigmies are noted as clever hunters. Only a half dozen of the most experienced hunters go on an elephant hunt. When the giant blue-grey is sighted he is stealthily stalkea to windward, and when close enough they shoot their arrows and continue to shoot and follow perhaps for days until the elephant is killed.

The little foragers and hunters are continually impelled by wanderlust to keep on the move, great is their itch for rambling. Pigmies select those regions where the vegetation is most dense to provide cover or where there is an abundance of fruit to attract wild animals. The tropical forest, with its juicy, rank vegetation. give< a constant, though at times scanty, supply to the pigmy larder. In lean times he can bear hunger stoically They call the sun “Kam.” the all-see-ing eye.

The Pigmy will be seen in the same tent as the tiny Congo bushmen and the Hottentots for the one price of admission. They all sing tribal songs in native fashion. Advt.