IDNO

LS.125503.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Games etc. Nigeria. 70.10-13.
Man Dancing."

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

Cultural Affliation

Hausa

Named Person

Photographer

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1913

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 p.416, and captioned:
"TAKAI. XXXIII.— The Challenge. XXXIV. The Assembly.
This is a war dance. It may be performed by men only,who hit each other's sticks as they pass round in opposite concentric circles, or by both sexes, the women clapping hands instead of using sticks." [JD 16/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: Hausa Superstitions and Customs; an Introduction to the Folk-lore and the Folk (1913), by Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915. (London, J. Bale, sons & Danielsson, ltd.). [JD 16/8/2013]