 | Dale Cockrell - Drama - 1997 - 262 pages
...off upon the breeze loud and strong.34 [T]hey again assembled on the lawn before the house with their gombays, bonjaws, and an ebo drum, made of a hollow...short sticks, which they rattled in time to the songs, . . ,35 John Canoe, with his subjects in tow, would parade down the way, announcing his coming by bellowing,... | |
 | Richard D. E. Burton - History - 1997 - 330 pages
...assembled on the lawn before the house with they gombays, bonjaws, and an Ebo drum made of a hollow tress, with a piece of sheepskin stretched over it. Some of the women carried smaller calabashes with pebbles in them, stuck on short sticks, which they rattled in time to the songs,... | |
 | Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 578 pages
...and Kittykarties. 1826 Williams 21-2, they again assembled on the lawn before the house with their gombays, bonjaws, and an ebo drum, made of a hollow...tree, with a piece of sheepskin stretched over it. EBOE-LIGHT /ebelait/ sb; occas sp ebolite; EBOE + light, sb. The tree Erythroxylon areolatum, at one... | |
 | Dena J. Epstein - Music - 2003 - 468 pages
...they again assembled on the lawn before the house with their gombays, bonjaws, and an ebo drum. . . . Some of the women carried small calabashes with pebbles...short sticks, which they rattled in time to the songs. . . . They divided themselves into parties to dance, some before the gombays, in a ring. . . . Others... | |
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... they again assembled on the lawn "before the house with then. gombays, bonjaws, and.' an ebo drum, made of a hollow tree, with a piece of sheepskin stretched over it. 