 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1873 - 772 ページ
...There is another means which the Indians use to capture this animal. They provide themselves with four pieces of hard wood about a foot long, and as thick as a man's finger, and pointed at each end ; round these they tie a cord in such a manner that, supposing... | |
 | David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 ページ
...This instrument is called "naffa ;" and with the chink turned toward them, they sit and beat strongly upon it with two cylindrical pieces of hard wood about a foot long and as thick as the wrist : by which means they produce a rude though loud and powerful sound. They vary the strength and... | |
 | Dominion Museum (N.Z.) - 1925 - 510 ページ
...wrist, by which moans they produced a rude, though loud and powerful sound. They vary the strength and rate of their beating at different parts of the dance, and also change the tones by beating in the middle, or near the end of the drum. ' ' The following remarks... | |
 | Elsdon Best - 1925 - 512 ページ
...wrist, by which means they produced a rude, though loud and powerful sound. They vary the strength and rate of their beating at different parts of the dance, and also change the tones by beating in the middle, or near the end of the drum." The following remarks... | |
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This instrument is called naffa; and with the chink turned toward them, they sit and beat strongly upon it with two cylindrical pieces of hard wood about a foot long, and as thick as the wrist ; by which means they produce a rude, though loud and powerful... 
