Azaghvana E-Book 2003 - Flipbook - Page 14
List of Figures
Figure 1: The Mandara Mountains xxiii
Figure 2: The Gwoza Hills xxiv
Figure 3: Boundaries 65
Figure 3a: Languages 67
Figure 3b: Ethnicity 69
Figure 4: Orientational map of the northern Mandara Mountains and adjacent plains 73
Figure 5: A three-dimensional perspective of the northwestern Mandara Mountains 81
Figure 6: Relative expansion of Wandala state during the eighteenth century AD 89
Figure 7: View of the Gwoza hills according to Moisel’s map of 1912 141
Figure 7a: Extract from Moisel's map with place names, district boundary and excursions
142
Figure 8: Boundaries of Dghweɗe administrative structure of 1994 (extract from Figure 3)
147
Figure 8a: Potential war alliances between northern and southern Dghweɗe 152
Figure 9: The Tur tradition deriving from Mbra across the Gwoza hills 158
Figure 10 : Migratory traditions of the wider subregional context 161
Figure 11: Northern Dghweɗe as early arrival zone and connections within the Gwoza hills
165
Figure 12: A Dghweɗe lineage tree 170
Figure 12a: Alternative version of the Dghweɗe house of Mbra 172
Figure 12b: Key marriages of Mughuze and Vaghagaya 176
Figure 12c: Vaghagaya lineage tree 177
Figure 12d: Lineage tree of the Thakara of Ghwa'a 182
Figure 13: Example of kambarte and ksage in relation to Thakara-Ngara of Ghwa'a 198
Figure 13a: Half- and full-siblingship across the paternal and maternal family divide 202
Figure 13b: Illustration of mother's brother's sons also being referred to as jije (grandfather)
203
Figure 14: Local group formation along local kindred ties 204
Figure 15: Descent tree of Baba Musa 209
Figure 15a: Tree of descent of Amuda and Ganjara 211
Figure 16: The paleoclimatic context of archaeological, written and oral source locations 233
Figure 17: A model of the general Dghweɗe farm layout 250
Figure 18: General layout of a traditional Dghweɗe house plan 284
Figure 19a: 3D view from lower kitchen corner 309
Figure 19b: 3D view from upper kitchen 309
Figure 19c: The foyer seen from lower room. The stomach of thala with the three ancestor
stones and the ritual sitting area in front of the granaries and husband's ritual sauce kitchen.
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