AMUSEMENTS.
IVERYBODYS PICTURES.
TO-NIGHT, “AFRICA SPEAKS.”
Many African tribes, particularly French Congo, have long made it a practce to i mutilate the faces of their women. AU;. efforts to discover the origin-of-,the custom failed, until Paul L. Hoefipr;, made an amazing trip, in th© (interests of the Colorado-African Expedition,. When. Hoefler reached the village bf 'Kiy.a Be in the French Congo,' inhabited by the Übangis tribe, he was shockndy to se© the faces of nativef-woplen; dsfigujed. They all wore huge : wooden discs in their lips. Hoeffer learned that the custom originated in. th© slave traffic. Arab bands, on their quest for black ivory arid comely females natives, called always
on the. Uzangis, for the women of the
tribe were noted for their beauty. The marauders soon exhausted the supply of young- girls. They then seized female infants. These were reared by Arab women until old enough to sell in the slag© market. Startling photographs s 'of: these women are. shown in “Africa Speaks,” the adventure picture to be screened ' to-night (Thursday), together- with many other intimate glimpses of native life.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1931, Page 3
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