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side of the foyer area was also where the first wife's lower kitchen was located. The same
principle is reflected in the left-to-right order of the granaries, and we see that the left granary
(14) belongs to the first wife. Her husband's ritual sauce kitchen (ghadike), where an
exogamous lineage brother cooked a sauce for the deceased father (dada), is also found to the
left.
Figure 18: General layout of a traditional Dghweɗe house plan
1 kuɗig tighe (lower kitchen)
2 kuɗig daghare (upper kitchen)
3 thala (house shrine area)
4 batiw tighe (lower room)
5 guv gabaitha (cow shed)
6 gdighwe (goat shed)
7 batiw daghare (upper room)
8 guv daghile (bull stable)
9 ghadike (ritual kitchen)
10 kwadgara (for boy or girl)
11 batiw gadada (ancestor room)
12 batiw gajije (ancestor room)
13 kavir gazal (father's granary)
14 kavir ganishe (wife's granary)
15 kavire (for first-born child)
16 dhanga (smooth front stone wall)
The main entrance area of a house is at the side, but we are not sure where it is. I marked it to
the right between the goat shed (6) and the children's room (10). If we consult Figure 19c of
our 3D model, we can also see that the two main passageways dividing the foyer are called
tab hupala (central passageway) and ghar malga (top or upper passageway).
Plate 22a: The roofs of a house in Kwalika during rainy season
Plate 22a shows the Dghweɗe house I photographed on the way to Kwalika in 1995. I applied
the same numbering of rooms as in our standardised plan above, but added gaɗike (17) for a
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