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during harvest festival (thagla) which was performed annually; see
Zakariya Kwire's oral account of thagla in Chapter 3.13.
Timbe
Tka
Tsaga
Funeral drum; was also used for bull festival; see photograph of a
timbe drum in Plate 34c (Chapter 3.11); the timbe drum was beaten
over the back of a recaptured bull before its sacrifice (Chapter 3.13).
Iron diggers; mentioned in Chapter 2.1 as gifts that were taken on
legendary journey to the resident of Borno in order to initiate the arrest
of Hamman Yaji during early colonial times; see also vardinga (wornout iron hoes), tghwa (tigernuts) and ɓala wurghe (part of palm tree)
which were additional gifts to gain access to the resident of Borno.
Ritual stick made from the freshly cut branch of a shiwe or a lave tree
for celebrating the bull festival; see illustration (Figure 21a) of a ritual
tsaga stick planted in the upper passageway of the foyer of a house
during the Dghweɗe bull festival (Chapter 3.13).
Tsakine
People who can do extraordinary things. They often claim to fight a
'war' in the night in the upper or celestial world (ghaluwa); witches
(wadighe) and sorcerers (zalghede) or specialist healers (gwal ngurɗe)
belong to this class of people, but rainmakers and peacemakers as
members of specialist lineages might also have had this ability but
were seen to have inherited the gift from their forefathers (Chapter
3.15).
Tsra
Khaya senegalensis; mahogany tree (was inherited by family
thaghaya); see Table 7b (Chapter 3.10).
Tsufa
General word for ritual (we are not certain about this term); mentioned
only once by bulama Ngatha (Chapter 3.8) as the general term for
ritual; the only similar sounding word we know is tsufga for adult
initiation as part of utiva (harvest festival) in Glavda culture (Chapter
3.14).
Tsukwana
A ficus tree variety; see Chapter 3.10 for more details.
Tswila
Ritual throwing of guts of a sacrificed he-goat into crops before
harvest; see Table 5e about calendrical rituals; was reportedly done
during millet and guinea corn years (see Chapter 3.8 for more details).
Tswila gharghaya
'Ritual throwing of guts on the hill near the house' (ghar = hill; ghaya =
house); mentioned by bulama Bala in Chapter 3.10.
Tswila thagla
Guts thrown into crops for harvest festival (was performed annually);
mentioned by Zakariya Kwire as part of the harvest festival (thagla) in
Chapter 3.13.
Tughdhe
Ritual beer pot with small aperture; see annotated list of ritual pots
found in a Dghweɗe house (Table 8); see photo series in Plate 38a
illustrating the Dghweɗe technique of making small apertures (Chapter
3.12); important for comparison with DGB small-aperture potsherds.
Tughdhe batiw gajije
Ritual beer pot with small aperture (tughdhe) kept in the miniature
ancestor room of deceased grandfather (batiw gajije); see photograph
in Plate 35c (Chapter 3.11).
Tughdhe fke
Large beer pot with small aperture to serve the public; see list of ritual
pots of the house in Table 8 (Chapter 3.12).
Tughdhe ghwala
Twin pot (ghwala = twin) with dual aperture for twin boy; see photo in
Plate 42a (Chapter 3.12).
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