IDNO

LS.125416.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Bori. Nigeria. 68.37.
4 Spirits (L to R)
1. Jato. Disreputable spirit.
2. Kuri. Chief god of paga Hausas.
3. Jam Maraki, a drunkard
4. Sarikin Bakka. Chief of Hunting Spirits.
(2 & 3 give any illness. 1 & 4 drive victims mad.)."

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 Coloured

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]