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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) www.globalgrey.co.uk
154 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett CHAPTER XIX. BINI CUSTOMS Some Bini Fetishes or Jujus.-EMATON. -The Phallic Pillar, God and the Devil. - Marriage Customs.-Secret Societies. THE Bini call a wizard AZE but the Jakri word is OLOTCHO which is not very different from the word used by the BAVILI, i.e., NDOTCHI. A person accused of witchcraft is given the bark of the INYI pounded up together with water. If the accused vomits he is considered innocent, if he does not the poison generally kills him, and his guilt is thus proved. The drum language does not appear to exist much north of Old Calabar, and the Bini will tell me nothing about it. When the OBA makes father (Ezimi) the big thick looking drum beaten in the father's house is called EKUN ALWERA. Then the musicians carry:- Two long drums called IDAN tum tum One small " " UKE short drum like ours in shape. One medium " " IGEGAN " " One large " " IMIGAN " " Road jujus are called MWIHEYO. Cowries represent the EBAMI AKE A big stone " " OKWHAIHE Pebbles " " OVIA A spoilt gun " " OGUN (war) And when the people hear or notice that a road has a MWIHEYO put on it they talk of the road as ULAWMA. Osun are Jujus to which certain Doctors or Obos are attached. Some times as you are marching you will notice a bunch of leaves tied together fastened to a branch of a tree, this they call ESHU SHU, which might be translated little devil, and www.globalgrey.co.uk
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