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THE ALPHABET
XXERIEX 1.44*
D1 duala Lo
Win IRIS
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Nsibidi signs or records 1.-1, Married love. 2, Married love, with pillow. 3. Married love with pillows for head and feet (a sign of wealth). 4, Married love with pillow. 5 and 6, Quarrel between husband and wife (a pillow is between them). 7. Violent quarrel between husband and wife. 8. One who causes a disturbance between husband and wife, 9, A woman with six children and a husband, and a pillow. 10, A man with two wives and their children, with the roof-tree of their house. 11, A house in which are three women and a man. 12, Two women with many children in the house with their husband. 13. A Woman with child. 14. The same, 13. Two Women on each side of a house; one on each side has a child. 16, Two women who live in the same house bave palaver every time they meet; third woman is entering by the door. 17. A man comes to a woman who has husband and asks her to live with him. 18, Three men who sought the same married woman. 19. A man committed adultery with a woman who lives apart from her husband: he has to pay compensation to the woman's family and to her husband. 20, A woman goes to bathe in the river at ford, while her husband watches tosce that no one shoots
her. 21, Fire. 2 ("shield of David"), Ardent love 2.-1, A man and a woman sleeping together on a native bed; it was very hot, so they put their arms outside, the short strokes at the bottom are the legs of the bed. 2, A boy kept a girl as his friend until she grew up. He then married her, and they lived together and made their bed with a pillow for the head and feet. 3. A palaver house. 4. A man and his friend went into the town to get two girls; one of the men got girl and took her home with him; the other man could not find a girl; they therefore parted and went different ways. 5-6, A man's heart; the man stands with his arms sprend out to show that he knows more about Egbo than any other man: the dots represent the blood in the heart No. 7 consists of the symbols marked A to N; A, the young boys were sitting in the Nsibidi house; B, there were two young women who sold their favours for money: C, they had two boys whom they used to send out to get the men to come to them, or to get money from them; D, one of the boys took: E, a chewing stick; F, a bottle of tombo, and G, native glass; H, to the young men sitting on the ekfrat stick; 1. these young men senit their boy to bring J, a bag containing rods: K, the buy got the bug of rods, and took it to the two men, who took the rods to the women; I., the young men sent their boy (with the sign of the comet) to meet them that night; M, one of the young men met one of the women in an open place, et cum inclinata coitit; N, the next day, the young man found the woman with a different man and knew she was unfaithful.
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