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Plates 32a-33d show the lower room of Buba's first wife, with interlinked goat and cow sheds.
We notice in Plate 32a the two children looking down from the upper room of Buba's house
(A) into the lower room (B) with his first wife's bed (a). We see a mahogany door behind a
post (b) and bundles of rope (c) hanging from the ceiling. In Plate 32b we can see the ladder
(C) used to get into the loft (gude) of the lower room. Behind the ladder we see the entrance
(D) to one of the animal sheds, and we see more rope (a) hanging from the ceiling.
Plate 32a: Lower room in Buba's house
Plate 32b: Ladder (C) to gude
Plate 32c shows the entrance hole (E) of gude, and we also see the wooden ceiling (F), while
Plate 32d gives a view of inside the dome of gude (G) with the rim of the entry-hole being
visible (H). In the right corner inside gude in Plate 32d, we see parts of a built-in container
structure made of adobe (I). The round container is called takwakwala and served the purpose
of storing grain or any other item the first wife wanted to keep there.
Plate 32c: Entrance to gude in lower room
Plate 32d: Dome of gude in lower room
Plates 33a-33d below show the two animal sheds diverting from the lower room of Buba's
house. Plates 33a and 33b display the goat shed, which was to the right of the first wife's
room. The goat shed was empty but we can see the abutments of the two rooms in the
entrance area (A). In Plate 33b we see two wooden sticks (a) which were used to tie up the
goats. In Plate 33b we also recognise the little window (b) for airing the goat shed, and we
can see that the floor is lowered into the ground (LG).
Plate 33c and 33d show the cow shed which is to the left of the lower room. It accommodated
a calf, and goats were not unusual. The abutment between the lower room and the cowshed is
visible in Plate 33c (A). We remember their outer walls from our view of the ghar malga
passageway in Plate 28a. Plate 33d shows that the cowshed was also lowered into the ground
(LG), and we notice the small window (b) to keep the sheds aired. We also see in Plate 33d
that the cowshed had a ceiling (C).
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