IDNO

LS.125453.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kajji goat house at Mersa."

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; Northern Nigeria; Mersa

Cultural Affliation

Kajji

Named Person

Photographer

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1912

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in ‘The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria’, opposite p.122, with the following caption:
"A Goat-House.
The goat-houses are small, round huts, with logs on the floor to leave space for the droppings and for ashes, the mixture being used as manure. The door is closed by placing logs of wood on the top of one another, they being held in position by an upright on each side. Loose branches of thorn or euphorbia are placed in front to keep leopards and hyenas away from these logs. See p.137." [JD 14/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: "The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria; an account of an official's seven years' experience in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes", by Major A. J. N. Tremearne (B.A. (Cantab.), F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., Sometime Scholar and Prizeman, Christ's College, Hausa Lecturer, and First Diplome in Anthropology, Cambridge). (J. B. Lippincott, 1912). The full text is available on Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/tailedheadhunte00tremgoog. [JD 14/8/2013]