Anthropological report on Sierra Leone: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone, Part 1, Law and custom of the Timne and other tribes

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Titel:: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone

Autor:: Thomas, Northcote W.

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Harrison and Sons

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Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Gesamtdarstellungen und Sammelwerke

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Titel:: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone, Part 1, Law and custom of the Timne and other tribes

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1916

Signatur:: Pn 70703:1:F8

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Titel:: XIX. Farming and crops

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172 XIX.—FARMING AND CROPS. The most important crop is rice, of which many varieties are known; guinea-corn, millet, sesame, maize, cassava, and ground-nuts (planted by women) are also major articles of sultivation. Among women’s vegetables may be mentioned tomatoes (matamba), beans (elil), sweet potatoes (okro), “garden eggs” (malula, jakato, makobokgbo, makunt, stc.), leaves for soup (kabete, akimban), and others. Women also make swamp (pgtopoto) farms, which entail less work, The return may be fivefold, and two crops can be raised from the same patch. Peni, a Digitaria species, is often sown in an old rice- farm. It is sown broadcast, and cut in August ; they garner it like rice, and dry it on a “fence” or “tree.” When it is dry, the grains are trodden out. There are no rites con- nected with the cultivation. For a large rice-farm thirty men and boys may do two days’ work in clearing the bush, and three or four men, a. month later, put the dried brushwood together for burning in five or six days. When the rice is to be sowed, thirty men may be needed for hoeing and the same number of women for breaking the sods, each for one or two days. Two or three boys watch for a week till the seed germinates. A. month later weeding will Occupy seven women {for four days, the weeds being usually placed in the forks of the stumps of saplings left in the ground. The same stumps are used for drying the rice when it is reaped. It is cut off short below the ear and‘ tied in small sheaves, which are afterwards (@) hung on a “ tree” (abanta), ie., a horizontal pole; (b) stacked beneath the guard-hut, in which the boys sit, while the rice is ripenine, to scare the:

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