IDNO

T.172869.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Batagarawa and neighbourhood - the Katsina village which is the subject of 'Rural Hausa'.
7. Young girls who were usually in Muslim seclusion, except when at school, repairing the entrance hut roof of P.H's [Polly Hill's] house." [Hill's caption]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Katsina State; Batagarawa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Polly Hill

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

1967

Collection Name

Polly Hill Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.172863.PH - T.173051.PH were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C773/.

T.172863.PH - T.172925.PH were located in a cream envelope, now numbered C773/1.

Bibliographical Reference: In Hill, P. (1972) ‘Batagarawa’, in Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 24, Hill writes that zaure (entrance huts) were the only part of the house that most men had to themselves in Batagarawa, they were usually little more than a little roofed passageway. During Hill's fieldwork, many young men and schoolboys had nowhere to sleep at night (unless their relatives provided somewhere) so would use zaure or sleep under trees. [LB 30/07/2024]