ABSTRACT
The spirits are divided into several categories, the Great Ones (Baba); the Children of the Tobe (Yan Riga)—i.e. those wearing the Mohammedan clothing; the Black Men or Pagans (Babbaku); the Youths (Samari); the Warriors or Children of the Shield (Yan Garke); the Children of the Grove (Yan Kurimi); or of the Stream (Yan Rawa); those responsible for petty illnesses, the “Little Spots” (Yayan Jidderi); and a few others who seem to be unclassified. As the dancers in the photographs are not always in the order in which they appear in the following lists—some of the spirits preferring to keep bad company—the number of the photograph in which the bori appears has been placed in parentheses after the name in each case.
