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The Official Guide for
The Tarzan Clans of America
Part II
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CLAN SONGS:
The Clan handbook featured numerous Clan songs written by ERB:
TRIBAL HUNTING SONG
THE SONG OF MANU THE MONKEY
THE SONG OF NUMA THE LION
THE SONG OF USHA THE WIND.
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CLAN DANCE -- Involved the warriors armed with spears and shields chanting and dancing in a circle around a tom-tom beater. The Medicine Man gave commands such as "dum dum" (drum), "kordo" (dance), "tand-lan" (left), "unk" (go), "rand" (back), "karpo" (centre), "rand," "lan," "tand-lan," "leap," "yell," "dan-do," (stop).
HOW TO MAKE A SPEAR - Take a 4 feet, 3/4 or 1" in diameter wooden dowel rod. To create a spearhead, cut a notch 5 inches from the end, place a ball of cotton rags at the end, draw a piece of cloth over it and down the sides, then wrap twine around the cloth and tighten it over the notch. Cut another notch below the first one to enable you to tie on bird feathers. Colored bands may also be painted on as decoration.
HOW TO MAKE A SHIELD - Use a sugar barrel head or two pieces of board from a light crate. Each Warrior should paint the Clan emblem as well as his own emblem or design on his own shield. Fasten short pieces of clothesline or a leather strap onto the back as hand and arm holds. A good, light shield can also be made by stretching canvas or leather over a barrel hoop and sewing or riveting the arm and hand loops to the back.
HOW TO MAKE A TOM-TOM -- Stretch a piece of damp thin soft hide over an empty nail keg. Fasten it all the way around using large carpet tacks. Wrap heavy twine tightly around the keg on top of the ends of the hide. Decorate by painting on the Clan emblem and other designs. Attach bits of colored cloth, feathers, beads,and rings. Fasten a loop of rope or leather so that it may be carried around the neck of the drummer. The drum may be beaten with drum sticks or knuckles.
PUNISHMENTS - involved the deduction of points from the member's ratings or dismissal from the Clan. The Chief, the Sub-Chief, and the Medicine Man acted as a court and then they took a vote as to whether the accused should be punished or not.
HOW THE CLAN VOTED ON THE DISMISSAL OF A MEMBER -- The Warriors, with spears and shields, encircled the Chief, Sub-Chief, Medicine Man and the accused. The Chief stated the charge and gave the accused a chance to speak in his defense. The Scribe then gave out the ballots and the members voted. The Chief counted the ballots and announced the decision. If the member was to be dismissed, the Chief took and broke his spear and shield.
DEMOTING A CHIEF -- If the Chief was not a good leader he could be demoted by a majority vote of all the members and a new chief elected.
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DICTIONARY OF THE APE LANGUAGE -- Despite having the help of Tarzan, the author (ERB) professed difficulties in compiling this dictionary. He pointed out that the apes had no words to describe many things that are common to us and that their language consisted mostly of nouns and verbs, having almost no auxiliary parts of speech. He admitted that many words of their simple, yet strange language were omitted; but enough were given to permit members to carry on a conversation or a correspondence in the language of the Mangani.
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ant, kando antelope, wappi ape, mangani arm, wang arrow, etarad baboon, tongani baby, balu back, rand bad, sord battle, bar beast, tor beetle, nene belly, gu beware, kreeg-ah big, zu bird, neeta black, go blood, gallul blue, m’wa blunt, tand-litu boar, horta bone, dano bottom, ug bow, ry-balu-den boy, ab branch (of a tree), balu-den brave, tand-utor bright, tu broken, tub brook, no brother, abalu buffalo, gorgo cast, aro c atch, rem cave, zu-kut center, karp chief, gund clan, hotan climb, unk-nala cold, bur come, yud corn, ut country, pal cow, kalo crocodile, gimla crooked, ry cut, yuto dance (verb), kordo dance (noun), voo-dum dark, tanda dead, bund down, tand-nal Do you surrender or I do surrendor, kagoda drink, ud drum, dum-dum dry, tand-lul dull, tand-llitu ear, yad eat, popo egg, klu-kal elbow, band elephant, tantor empty, tand-vulp eye, yat face, lot fall, amba fang, gash fat, dak father, pastar fear, utor female, kalan few, tandpho fierce, lu fight to kill, bundolo fire, argo fish, pisa flat bo flesh, dako-zan flower, ro fly, busso f oot, b’zee forest, hoden friend, yo front, gugu fruit, sopu full, vulp get up, tand-ramba giraffe, omtag girl, za go, unk good, vando gore, yut gorilla, bolgani grasshopper, nesen great, ben great black apes (black men), gomangani great white apes (white men), tarmangani growl, gor green, wa gun, pand-balu-den hair, b’zan hand, b-wang hard, eho-dan hate, ugla he, bu head, b’yat heart, thub hen, klu here, yel high, ta hill, ta-pal hippopotamus, duro hit, kob hole, kukt hollow, eho-kut home, wala hot, koho house, wala hungry, po husband, por-atan hut, wala hyena, dango ice, dan-lul in, zor kick, lob kill, bundolo kind, sato knee, abu lake, dak-lul -29- lame, mado land, pal laugh, rota leaf, wa-usha leaves, ho-wa-usha left, tandlan leg, zee leopard, sheeta lie down, ramba lie (untruth), nur light, u lightning, ara like, gree-ah limb, (of tree), balu-den lion, numa lioness, sabor little, eta long, om look, yato lose, adu loud, pandar love, gree-ah low, eta-nala male, atan many, ho mate, por meat, dako-zan middle, karpo mighty, ko milk, kal moon, goro monkey, manu mosquite, lano mother, kalu mountain, ved mouth, tho much, eho muscle, vo neck, tag negro, gomangani nest wala no, tand noise, panda nose, lat not, tand nut, dan-sopu ocean, zu-dak-lul out, zut panther, sheeta rain, meeta rat, pambo red, ga revolver, pand-balu-den rhinocerous, buto rifle, pand-balu-den right, lan rise, ala river, gom-lul roar, zugor rock, dan rooster, tan-klu rough, es run, gom scream, kree-gor see, yato sharp, litu she, mu shield, jabo shoot, aro short, mo sick, gumado side, lufo silence, tand-panda silent, tand-panda sing, voo-voo sister, za-balu smoke, whuff snake, histah snare, rala snow, tar-bur soft, pan spear, arad stab, yut starve, tand-popo star, hul stay, tand-unk stick, balu-den sting, lana stomach, gu stone, dan stop, dan-do straight, tro strange, jar strike, kob strong, zu-vo sun, kkudu surrender, ka-goda swim, lul-kor swing, yang tail, at talk, gogo tall, ta that, wob there, yeland thick, dako thin, tandak thirsty, ubor this, wo throw, aro thunder, pand tooth, gash tom-tom, dum-dum tongue, lus top, eho-nala tortoise, kota tree, den tribe, hohotan true, rep truth, rep up, nala up, get; rand-ramba valley, pele village, ho-wala vulture, ska walk, kor warm, eta-koho warrior, tan water, lul weak, pan-vo weep, pan-lul wet, eho-lul well, van whisper, eta-gogo white, tar white man, tarmangani -30- wife, por-kalan wild cat, skree win,gando wind, usha word, rea wrestle, olo yellow, mal yes, rak zebra, pacco |
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THE END
Memberships were sent out and Clans were formed but, unfortunately, ERB's Tarzan Clans project withered on the vine for lack of support. The chief contributing factor to its demise was probably the outbreak of World War II.
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