--- title: Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · full text with trees description: Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: FIG. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound. # Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound. Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound. of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell: the whole text, 36 sentences and 627 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. FIG.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") 3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") THE CHIEF ALWAYS SAT WITH HIS FEET ON THE SKULLS.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE INFAM JU-JU.\][4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") FOOTNOTES:[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") \[1\] \_Author’s Note.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") \_--Okukum is the juice extracted from a fungus like a very small mushroom.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") It is painted on to the skin with a small stick, and is a fight brown liquid paste.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Curious designs are made all over the body, the lines running parallel.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The paste is then allowed to dry for about a day, and eventually rubs off.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time the acid has eaten into the skin, and the dark marks remain, showing the pattern for several months.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") They cannot be washed off by water.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The Okuni and Infoit people call this fungus \_oboma\_ and the Boki people \_katium\_.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni people call it \_ebim\_.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") \[2\] A sort of burrowing bush rat.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") \[3\] \_Author’s Note.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") \_--Koko yams are cooked for several hours.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") They are boiled in three different waters, and so that each water is steamed away before the fresh water is added.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The yams are then left in the pot until the following morning.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The ordinary yam is cooked and eaten at once.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") \[4\] The “night” calabash was used by the witches when they were going to kill anyone for their feasts, as it prolonged the night, and the Okuni people still believe when the nights are unusually long that the witches are out with the “night” calabash and are killing people.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") \[5\] These shelters are made out of palm leaves and are quickly put together, but they do not keep out the rain.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") They are, however, sufficient for the wants of the natives in the dry season.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") \[6\] The native hunters say that if you shout at an iguana he does not move or take any notice, but if you point at him and whisper, “Look, there is an iguana,” he will run away at once.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") An iguana never runs more than about fifty yards at a time; he then stops to get his breath.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") If you find him again he will be killed easily, as he cannot run so far a second time; there is, therefore, a second saying amongst the hunters that “A first run is a run for life, and when you are in danger you should run as far as you can before you stop to rest, as when you run the second time you will not be able to go so far.”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") \[7\] The natives believe that when a man whose first-born child is a boy happens to hit a toe on his right foot against a stone on his way to a town, that he will be badly received at that town, but if the toe which is hit by the stone is on his left foot, then the people will welcome him and treat him kindly.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") \[8\] The origin of this saying is, that a man seeing a fine bird sitting on the branch of a tree threw a stone at it, but the stone hit the branch, and as the man was standing underneath the stone came back and hit him.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") \[9\] “’Nda” in the Infor and Inde languages means “elephantiasis.”[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") \[10\] The native lamp was of earthenware, with a fibre wick in palm-oil.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") \[11\] The four streams mentioned in this story are still called by the same names, and are well known to the inhabitants of Okuni.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Transcriber's Notes:[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Italics are shown thus: \_sloping\_.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Perceived typographical errors have been changed.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/28/) - ↑ back to [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/)