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The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa (1914)

Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915 · London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd · leaf 324

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encing about two-thirty p.m. At firstthere was a good deal of preliminary dancing in front ofthe musicians, each person, male or female, moving moreor less sedately at first, and not falling down, the objectbeing, apparently, to show off the different cloths ownedby the dancer, though, originally,…

Hausa (African people) · Demonology · Dance · Ethnology

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