Speech Surrogates

Summary

Double bell system used by the Baluba people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mentioned by Van Avermaet (1945). It apparently shares its encoding system with the Luba slit-log drum (12).

Bibliography

Van Avermaet, E. (1945). Les Tons en kiLuba Samba et le tambour-téléphone. Aequatoria, 8(1), 1–12. JSTOR.

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