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CAMBRIDGE.—The Vice-Chancellor has received a letter from Baron von Hugel, curator of the Museum of General and Local Archaeology and of Ethnology, recording a gift from the Rev. John Roscoe, of the Church Missionary Society, of exceptional value and interest. It consists of a second instalment of selected native o manufactures from Uganda. The chief value of the gift lies in a unique set of relics of deceased Baganda kings, which, enclosed in ornate cases, were preserved by the people under the name of Lubare (i.e. the Deity) in special shrines placed under the guardianship of hereditary custodians. Of these king-gods, the most sacred objects of Baganda cult, three generations are represented in the present collection.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 77, 261–262 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077261a0
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