IDNO

T.172974.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
81. Bori dancers - see R.H [Rural Hausa]." [Hill's caption]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Kano

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

June 1972

Collection Name

Polly Hill Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.773001.PH - T.773189.PH were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C773/.

T.172926.PH - T.172999.PH were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C773/2.

Bibliographical Reference: In Hill, P. 1972. 'Rural Hausa : a village and a setting'. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.212. Hill writes "Bori. Hausa possessive spirit cult, originally associated with sickness-curing, now more often 'play'. 'The bori is an old, indigenous, pre-Islamic Hausa cult which involves the belief in spirits known as isokoki, which under certain conditions can possess men and harm them' - A. Cohen (1969, p. 58)." [LB 14/08/2024]