IDNO

LS.125402.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Bori. Nigeria. 68.23.
Ready for a Bori spirit."

On Leading Catalogue Card in S.67: "Nigeria.
Most of the Nigerian slides with white labels are those of A.J.N. Tremearne."

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Bori

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1914

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Hausa Superstitions and Customs; an Introduction to the Folk-lore and the Folk, opposite frontipiece, and captioned:
"I.—Ready for a Bori Spirit. II. —Possessed.
Bori Is self-induced hysteria. During possession by the spirits, the patients imitate certain persons or animals, and often ill-treat themselves. The spirit is usually expelled by sneezing. Vide page 145 and Note III.." [JD 16/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915, The Ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa, (1914,
London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd). Full text available on Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/banofboridemonsd00trem. [JD 12/8/2013]