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as such. These heaps have a pair of bullock's horns stuck into
them and a cattle rope attached to them. I figure one that my
brother photographed at Sheik Agoit's, not far from Bor, which
has bullock's horns at one end, goat's horns at the other, and
consequently a pair of ropes (fig. 374).

Fig. 374-

Dr C. G. Seligmann in letters dated March 15 and March 22,
1911, very kindly supplies me with further information about these
singular structures and allows me to publish two examples that he
photographed in the Tain villages near Bor (figs. 375, 376). The

Fig- 375- Fig. 376.

erection is, he says, a form of shrine known as buor made for the
spirit (atiep) of an ancestor to inhabit. I quote from Dr Seligmann's
note-book1:

1 See now his article in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh
1911 iv. 710.