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Gadegal /gidegal
Gadegal and gidegal are colonial expressions describing the alleged
chiefly function of the Dghweɗe concept of lineage majority
(gadghale); see critical discussion in Chapter 3.21.
Gadghale
A majority of elders represented by the most numerous local lineage
group in late pre-colonial times (Chapter 3.21); see gadegal and
gidegal for the colonial application of the concept.
Gaɗike
Flat roof made of thatch on wooden supports; see Chapter 3.11 about
the architecture of a traditional house.
Gagha
Acacia albida (Chapter 3.10)
Gamaka
Harvest storage facility that could be used for guinea corn or millet
Garda
Neckband woven of five layers of speargrass (tharɗe) which gave the
ngwa garda during the second stage of dzum zugune their name; see
photograph in Plate 57c (Chapter 3.14).
Gaske
A member of the Dghweɗe rainmaker lineage; ga = people; Ske =
founding ancestor of rainmaker lineage; see Chapters 3.7 and 3.13.
Gazhiwe
Main cornblesser lineage of Dghweɗe; Zhiwe was a 'son' of Gudule
(see Chapter 3.7 for more details).
Ghadike
Ritual sauce kitchen for the husband of a house; see Figure 18 (Chapter
3.11) and Figure 19c (Chapter 3.12) for general layout plans.
Ghalaghala
Carpet grass (Axonopus); see Plate 19a for a photograph of carpet
grass; it was used by the rainmaker to tie to the ngurangura tree
(Diospyros mespiliformis) to control strong winds (Chapter 3.10).
Ghaluwa
Celestial world above this world; hard sky; firmament; see Chapter
3.16 where we attempt to reconstruct the cosmographic worldview of
the pre-colonial Dghweɗe; ghaluwa was also a place where powerful
healers struggled with sorcerers over an abducted spirit, or where
rainmakers fought with other rainmakers for rain to fall in a particular
locality.
Ghamba
Name given to the first child born after twins; Ghamba was also the
name given to the third child in case of the birth of triplets (Chapter
3.19); Ghamba did not fall victim to infanticide when born as an
unlucky eighth-born child (see Chapter 3.18 for details).
Ghar
On top; high up; hill
Ghar malga
Upper passageway or upper foundation of the foyer area of a house
(malga = foundation stone); see photograph in Plate 28c and also
groundplan of the foyer of a house in Figure 19c (Chapter 3.11).
Ghawaghawa
Cursing; the place where someone might have been cursed in the precolonial past was referred to as vakwaɗa (Chapter 3.15).
Ghaya
House; homestead; farmstead; the Dhgweɗe residence was patrilocal
and a farmstead was occupied by a nuclear family as the socioeconomic base unit; individual rooms of a house are called batiwe; see
Figure 18 and Plate 22a for the general architectural layout structure of
a traditional Dghweɗe house (Chapter 3.11).
Ghdha vɗa
Forging or hammering iron bars (ɗutsa) into iron tools (ghdha =
smithing; vɗa = hammering into tools, forging); consult Chapter 3.10.
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