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^{page 448 note 1} ‘Inna’, mother.

^{page 448 note 2} i.e. the bridegroom's friends.

^{page 448 note 3} ‘Cede cudtirde’.

^{page 448 note 4} ‘Cede dambordu’.

^{page 448 note 5} A young girl who is attached to the bride until the marriage is completed.

^{page 448 note 6} ‘the place of foolishness’.

^{page 448 note 7} The equivalent of the Hausa ‘uwar-gida’.

^{page 448 note 8} ‘little girl’.

^{page 448 note 9} ‘she who gives birth’.

^{page 448 note 10} ‘she has filled up’.

^{page 448 note 11} The ‘bridle’ cowries, i.e. the hire of the horse on which the bride rides.

^{page 448 note 12} Hausa ‘tuwo’.

^{page 448 note 13} From ‘nyama’ to eat.

^{page 449 note 1} ‘dismissing or saying farewell to the “bingawa”’.

^{page 449 note 2} ‘the uncovering of the mouth’.

^{page 449 note 3} ‘the uncovering of the head’.

^{page 449 note 4} ‘the mounting of the bed’.

^{page 449 note 5} ‘nangugo jungo’, ‘the seizing of the hand’.