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Tallensi

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Tallensi

Member of a people living in northern Ghana. The Tallensi have a strong and elaborate clan system; government is in the hands of chiefs and Earth priests, who are ritually independent and represent two different clans, said to have been the ancestors of the people.
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Similar funerary practices are found among neighboring Kassena and Builsa, and horned head dresses also occur among different peoples in northeastern Ghana and the broader Voltaic region, including Dagomba, Tallensi, Lobi, Konkomba, and Moba.
Buffalo helmets of Tussian and Siemu peoples of Burkina Faso by Petridis, Constantine / African Arts
Among the reading that Derek took with him to Sarawak were the page proofs of The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi.
Derek Freeman: 1916-2001 by Borneo Research Bulletin
 
 
 
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