Notes on Some Fulani Tribes and Customs

L. N. Reed

doi:10.2307/1155404

Notes on Some Fulani Tribes and Customs

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012

L. N. Reed

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The following preliminary notes on some Fulani tribes were compiled as the result of a series of tours carried out in 1928 among the Fulani of the Bornu Emirate Division of Bornu Province in the northern provinces of Nigeria, and it is to the Fulani of that area only that the notes refer.

Type: Research Article
Information: Africa , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1932 , pp. 422 - 454

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1155404 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © International African Institute 1932

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^{page 428 note 1} Kelli, , Grewia mollis.Google Scholar

^{page 428 note 2} Edi, , Sclerocarya birroea.Google Scholar

^{page 428 note 3} Barkehi, , Bauhinia retkulata.Google Scholar

^{page 448 note 1} ‘Inna’, mother.

^{page 448 note 2} i.e. the bridegroom's friends.

^{page 448 note 3} ‘Cede cudtirde’.

^{page 448 note 4} ‘Cede dambordu’.

^{page 448 note 5} A young girl who is attached to the bride until the marriage is completed.

^{page 448 note 6} ‘the place of foolishness’.

^{page 448 note 7} The equivalent of the Hausa ‘uwar-gida’.

^{page 448 note 8} ‘little girl’.

^{page 448 note 9} ‘she who gives birth’.

^{page 448 note 10} ‘she has filled up’.

^{page 448 note 11} The ‘bridle’ cowries, i.e. the hire of the horse on which the bride rides.

^{page 448 note 12} Hausa ‘tuwo’.

^{page 448 note 13} From ‘nyama’ to eat.

^{page 449 note 1} ‘dismissing or saying farewell to the “bingawa”’.

^{page 449 note 2} ‘the uncovering of the mouth’.

^{page 449 note 3} ‘the uncovering of the head’.

^{page 449 note 4} ‘the mounting of the bed’.

^{page 449 note 5} ‘nangugo jungo’, ‘the seizing of the hand’.

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