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163 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett If a person attacked by one of these people had the presence of mind to cry out the words OGED' EGBOMA AYAN AKPWOKA WAW GAPOKAI (something to the effect that plantains do not kill a man in the day time) it was a matter of honour not to kill him. The noise of chain and brass anklets as a woman ran away was also a life-saving sign. When these men had presented the OBA with these parts of seven or fourteen persons the OBA gave them the coral necklace, bracelets, and anklets as a sign that they had become OKIASON; IDUN OHOGBI was their chief, and they lived in OBAYAGBON's quarter. www.globalgrey.co.uk
164 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett CHAPTER XX. MORE CUSTOMS Bini Dances.-Making Father.-The Rites.-Women's Dance.-Egugu DanceOvia Dance. BINI DANCES IN the afternoon of February 2nd, 1903, after rather a long march, we entered UREZEN, a town not far from UDO, in the district of Benin. As we neared the blacksmith's shed we noticed twelve figures, quaintly clad, singing a song in falsetto, and a boy. These twelve people were dressed in a dress (OMIGWI), made of strips of leaves of the palm called OME; their heads and shoulders were covered in a mask and mantle of very rough cloth that looked like the material sacks are made of, their heads were crowned by a headdress of the feathers of the AWAWA. Their arms and hands were encased in long sleeves of the same rough material a's their mantles, and in their hands they held sticks which they call IKWATA. A mound of clay under a rough seat, studded with pots and an iron ornament, like this, here and there. This is called OSUN. The boy simply wore a skirt made of strips of palm leaves, but in his hand he held a staff called ERAN. This was made of the rib of the palm leaf knotched at intervals, and surmounted by a bushy tuft of strips of the petiole. www.globalgrey.co.uk
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