IDNO

T.172976.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
83. As no.71." [Hill's caption]

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
71. A 'big house' at Doyari - see R.K. [Rural Kano]" [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: Rural Kano: Hill, P. (1977) Population, prosperity and poverty : rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.180.
"in Doyari, as we have seen, not only do all married men remain in their parental home indefinitely, but brothers, also, stay together after their father's death, to the point that only eighteen of the total 298 married men who have deceased fathers and one or more married brothers are living in a separate house from their brother(s)." [LB 14/08/2024]