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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 84

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refore square,consisting of single rooms forming the four sides, the wallsbeing strongly built of brick, and permanent. The roomsare separate structurally, and with no inside doors.Autas room, the best one which I saw, measured 25 feetby 9 feet by about 12 feet in height. A double door, opening… … 9.—A lane in Tunis.10.—The drawing-room (and medicine-hous?) of Haja Gogo. HABITATIONS AND DOMESTIC LIFE 71 grammatic representation of a hand—which in some casesis in the form of a lyre—it may be that the mere drivingin of the nails gives protection, imprisoning in the wood-work of the door the…

Hausa (African people) · Demonology · Dance · Ethnology

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