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alternative for ritual sauce in the absence of guinea corn (Chapter
3.13).
Batiw daghara
Upper room of a traditional house; belongs to the father of the house;
see house plan illustrations in Figures 18 and 19b.
Batiw gadada
Miniature ancestor room for deceased father (gadada); see Figures 18
and 19b; see also Plates 35a and 35b (Chapter 3.11).
Batiw gajije
Miniature ancestor room for deceased grandfather (gajije); see house
plan in Figures 18 and 19b; see also Plates 35a and 35b.
Batiw tighe
Lower room of a traditional house; allocated to the first wife of the
house; see house plan illustrations in Figures 18 and 19b.
Batiwe
Room or building; general term for individual room of a house
(ghaya); Figure 18 shows groundplan and Plate 22a shows individual
thatched roofs (Chapter 3.11).
Mother; you refer to your mother and to the sisters of your mother as
baya. So do your half-siblings, but they sometimes also refer to their
siblings' mothers as yaya, which is a general term for a person slightly
older than oneself regardless of gender. The prefix ba in baya signifies
the reference to a female. You can refer to any woman's daughter from
your mother's kin as dugh baya and to any woman's son from your
mother's kin as ske baya, in both cases regardless of their age. There is
also a general term to cover both which is vjirbaya (Chapter 3.6).
Unripe fruits of mahogany tree; also means premature sex or
miscarriage; see dada Ɗga's ideas around conception (Chapter 3.19).
Baya
Baza
Ɓlungwe
Guinea-corn flour cooked in water used during twin rituals; the
remainder of ɓlungwe was used by a twin to ritually feed a dead twin
brother (see interview with dada Dukwa in Chapter 3.19).
Btha
The Btha lineage holds the ritual custodianship of the land in Ghwa'a;
as seventh-born ancestral descendant from Thakara they provide the
lineage priest (thaghaya) of Ghwa'a; this included the ritual
custodianship of the subregional mountain shrine Durghwe; see oral
account by Zakariya Kwire and dada Ɗga (Chapter 3.17).
Bulama
Kanuri: ward head; developed in Dghweɗe during colonial times as
part of indirect British rule; is part of today's administrative system
linked to Gwoza the administrative centre of the Gwoza LGA.
Bungwe
Leopard; the Ɗagha peacemaker lineage owned a ritual treatment
known as vavanz bungwe which was believed to control people’s fear
of leopard attacks (see Baba Musa's oral account in Chapter 3.7 about
specialist lineage groups).
Bzaka
Tree variety growing at Durghwe; its fresh leaves are used by the
former mother during twin ceremony for taking the reborn twins
indoors, and by the new mother seven days later for taking them out of
the house again (see Chapter 3.19 for more details).
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Chima
Kanuri: 'messenger' (colonial expression of indirect rule); in 1925
captain Lewis lists the first chima and bulama of Ghwa'a (see Table 3)
which marks the beginning of British indirect rule (Chapter 2.2).
Chuwila
Sacrifice to prevent bad luck, or if someone had an accident; see
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