IDNO

T.172887.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Batagarawa and neighbourhood - the Katsina village which is the subject of 'Rural Hausa'.
25. P.H's [Polly Hill's] main local assistant Na'ida on his farm (See 'R.H. [Rural Hausa])." [Hill's caption]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Na'ida

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.

Publication: Image published in Hill, Polly. 2010. Rural Hausa A Village and a Setting. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) between pp.144-145, and captioned: "Magaji Batagarawa, the Village Head."
[Source https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E2D03D362762C6ACF2D01900A89D6602/9780511628184lst2_pix-x_CBO.pdf/list_of_illustrations.pdf, LB 16/07/2024]

Bibliographical Reference: In Hill, Polly. 2010. Rural Hausa A Village and a Setting. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.7. Hill refers to: "The concept of a typical Hausa village is necessarily absurd. Yet certain villages may be regarded as notably atypical if it is certain that only a small proportion of the total Hausa population lives in similar environments. Thus, a village situated on a river bank which is so suitable for onion-growing that most farmers cultivate this crop, might be considered atypical for this reason alone. Again, it is arguable that villages in the Kano and Sokoto Close-Settled Zones, where population densities are so great that bush-farms have been entirely eliminated from the agricultural landscape, are notably atypical - although the realization that there are many localities where farmers choose to cultivate most of their farms every year despite the availability of nearby bush-land, has some- what reduced the strength of this case." [Full text available on https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/53C57AD64807B07B6F4A85FD3DCE23A9/9780511628184c1_p1-9_CBO.pdf/introduction.pdf, LB 16/07/2024]