Nuba ring homesteads

Abstract

Drawings of Nuba ring homesteads (plans not to scale, after Nadel), depicting detail of a Korongo homestead (2 granaries, grinding stones, beer pots, a store hut, a sleeping hut of a wife at confinement, a sleeping hut of a man, a sleeping hut for girls, cooking places, a simsim granary, a keyhole entrance and sleeping ledges for guests), a Mesakin homestead (3 storage pots, 2 granaries, a cooking place, a place where a man sleeps when he is alone, 2 beer pots, a keyhole entrance, a sleeping hut of a man and wife, a door for animals, a sleeping ledge, a door for boys and girls, pigs or goats, a sleeping place of boys and girls and a grinding stone) and a Moro homestead (3 storage pots, a grinding stone, 3 granaries, a cooking place, 2 sleeping ledges, a keyhole entrance, goats and sheep, a sleeping hut of a man and wife and a sleeping hut for girls).