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Plate 54c: LAKINE – presumably also worn during dzum zugune
Was tied around the waist for everyday life and was worn for
dances and funerals. Made of woven palm fibre inside, surrounded
by fine zinc from corrugated iron.
Plate 54d: MOLA GUHE – presumably also worn during dzum zugune
Strip for the waist. Women wore this in everyday
life, funerals and traditional dances. Three leather
bands in fine strips. Tiny beads are sewn onto fine
alternating stripes of 5cm wide in blue, white and
blue. It was most likely also worn during dzum
zugune, perhaps by the wives of the performers?
Plate 54e: PAKƊINDA – presumably also worn during ngwa kwalanglanga
Worn by married women on the front of a waistband. Decoration
(rectangular) of beads on leather attached to a beaded strip. Zinc rods hang
from the strip dangling with beads at the join. We think pakɗindas hung
from sides of the war helmets of the ngwa kwalanglanga (Figure 23b)
Objects worn on lower back:
Plate 55a: BIZGARATA – presumably also worn during dzum zugune
For unmarried and newly married women. Worn (instead
of ndadudha – see Plate 55b below) on the back over the
bottom. Brass ring from which hang two beaded strips
about 4cm long. From the two strips hang many fine
beaded strips in a variety of colours. Attached to one are
five more dangling brass rings. We strongly assume that
is was worn for dzum zugune too.
Plate 55b: NDANDUGHA – presumably also worn during dzum zugune
Fixed onto the waistband, and hung with leaves to
cover the bottom in absence of textiles. Was worn
only by married women in everyday life. A
horizontal metal bar and a vertical bar from centre
of above. A knob at the centre at end of the bar.
We think women also wore it during dzum zugune.
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