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The Dum-Dum of the Great Apes
An intriguing element related to the annual Edgar Rice Burroughs Convention is its name: The Dum-Dum. It’s not a publicity gimmick (though it works wonders in that regard), nor is it a commentary on the amount of money many Tarzan fans are willing to spend on their hobby. The event’s sobriquet comes directly from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 7:

“. . . the tribe (of apes) was gathered about a small natural amphitheater which the jungle had left free from its entangling vines and creepers in a hollow among some low hills. . . In the center of the amphitheater was one of those strange earthen drums which the anthropoids build for the queer rites the sounds of which men have heard in the fastnesses of the jungle, but which none has ever witnessed.

“Many travelers have seen the drums of the great apes, and some have heard the sounds of their beating and the noise of the wild, weird revelry of these first lords of the jungle, but Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is, doubtless, the only human being who ever joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel of the Dum-Dum . . . The rites of the Dum-Dum marked important events in the life of the tribe—a victory, the capture of a prisoner, the killing of some large fierce denizen of the jungle, the death or accession of a king, and were conducted with set ceremonialism.

“. . . At length as darkness settled upon the jungle the apes commenced to bestir themselves, and soon they formed a great circle about the earthen drum.  The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males.  Before the drum sat three old females, each armed with a knotted branch fifteen or eighteen inches in length.

“Slowly and softly they began tapping upon the resounding surface of the drum as the first faint rays of the ascending moon silvered the encircling tree tops.

“As the light in the amphitheater increased the females augmented the frequency and force of their blows until presently a wild, rhythmic din pervaded the great jungle for miles in every direction.  Huge, fierce brutes stopped in their hunting, with up-pricked ears and raised heads, to listen to the dull booming that betokened the Dum-Dum of the apes.
 

~ Thanks to Scott Tracy Griffin
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!!! 2023 WAS A GREAT YEAR FOR ERB FANS !!!

Congrats to Gary Buckingham for his successful 2023 Dum-Dum
The Dum-Dum 2023 convention was held two full days in Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Friday and Saturday, 22-23 September 2023.
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Another Successful Event in 2023
Northwest Coast Mangani Gathering 2023
 Roseville Ca. September 29th and 30th!
Celebrating the many worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO JEFF LONG

Awarded the Burroughs Bibliophiles'
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
at this year's 2023 Dum-Dum Convention
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April 4-6 ~ Tuesday-Thursday

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SAN ANTONIO 2022 DUM-DUM :: JUNE 2-4
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