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In Plate 28b we are looking up from the direction of the central passageway. To the left of the
ritual sauce kitchen (A) we can see the dry stone wall of the lower kitchen (C) and higher up
the kitchen wall we can recognise remains of the fish patterned adobe plaster. We can see the
same decorated plaster on the first wife's granary (B) as we saw in other places in Buba's
house. We do not know how much of the stone masonry was originally plastered in this way.
We can also see the corn stalks (b) inside the ritual sauce kitchen, and some ash (c) on the
floor, but this is not necessarily from cooking ritual sauce.
Plate 28c: The foundation stones of gharmalga passageway towards the child's room
Plate 28d: Child's room and upper kitchen
as part of wuts kuɗige daghara passageway
In Plate 28c we can see the other end of the line of foundation stones (A) along the ghar
malga passageway bordering the lower end of the upper room complex. We see the solidity of
those big blocks of rocks along the ground, forming the semi-circular upper limit of the foyer,
which are even better visible in Plate 31a further below. At the right side of Plate 28c we see
the granary (B) of the father of the house, and the granary (C) of his children.
On the left side of Plate 28c, we can see parts of the wall of the goat shed (E) next to the front
of the lower room (D) leading down to the first child's room (F). Plate 28d shows the
passageway towards the upper kitchen (A) called wuts kuɗige daghare (meaning 'in front of
the upper kitchen') with the children's granary (C), and we also see the back of the 'bed' of
thala (F) to the right. We recognise the circular foundation stones of the first child's room (D)
and the wall of the upper kitchen (E) opposite the 'bed' of thala. Towards the very end of
Plate 28d we get a glimpse of the front wall (B) of the house.
Plate 29a and 29b below show the first child's room (kwadgara) and its roof. Unlike the lower
room for the first wife and the upper room for the husband, the children's room is still part of
the foyer of the house, next one up from the upper kitchen. Plate 29a shows a utility room
with a thatched roof (Plate 29b), telling us that it did not have a loft (gude) as did the lower
and upper room. We will learn in the next section that the latter formed a much more solid
segment in terms of stone architecture. In the past, the child's room was the room where a
bride went into seclusion as part of her marriage ceremony (Chapter 3.20), and there was a
specific way of marrying to trigger the entitlement of becoming a first wife. During her
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