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153 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett
square is about twelve inches or more below the level of the floor running round it, and
this basin is called EGUDU. On the side opposite the altar is a raised platform of mud
serving as a sofa or bed which is called UKBO. On the left hand side, just after entering
the third room, are two closed-in rooms which you enter through small openings in the
wall, one being the wife's room UGUGA, and the other the husband's room, OGWA.
The fourth room is a spare quarter called ODUOWA, and in a garden on the outside of
the back wall of the ODUOWA is a general or medicine altar called OGUSHUN.
They call the roof EROHUMOWA, and it is made of the leaves (EBE) of a reed-like plant
with a large leaf called EMWAME.
The ridge pole goes by the name OKPO, the rafter EREDOMI, while the opening or funnel
down which the rain flows into the EGUDU is called the OBOTO.
A BINI HOUSE (Pl. XVI)
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