Kofyar Slide Show #2
All photos copyright G. D. Stone, M. P. Stone, or R. McC. Netting
The Kofyar Homeland
The Setting
Kofyar homeland, frontier core area, Nigerian Middle Belt.
Jos Plateau, Gondwana land remnant, emplaced mountains, Shemankar Riv.
Plateau escarpment, Kofyar homeland compound. Protection from slaving & raiding.
Pop densities of 100, 500/km
2
in hills, plains in 1950s.
Fertilizer
Herd of goats; penned, stall-fed during growing season; forms rich compost (
zuk
).
Spreading
zuk
on the compound field as fertilizer before the rains.
Infield (
futung
) of hill compound, shown by
zuk
piles.
Ridging and Basining
Homeland farmstead; millet, sorghum near compound; waffle ridges with peanuts, maize.
Transplanting late millet into prepared ridges.
Terracing
Terraces below Latok, dry season.
Latok farmstead with terraced hill in background.
Terraced hillside in Bong; peanuts, acha (fonio), oil palms.
Homeland Crops
Sorghum.
Late millet in the homeland.
Pennisetum millet grain heads.
Brewing millet beer.
Kofyar homeland, frontier core area, Nigerian Middle
Belt.
Jos Plateau,
Gondwana land remnant, emplaced mountains, Shemankar Riv.
Plateau escarpment,
Kofyar homeland compound. Protection from slaving & raiding.
Pop densities of 100, 500/km2 in hills, plains
in 1950s.
Herd
of goats; penned,
stall-fed during growing season; forms rich compost (zuk).
Spreading zuk on
the compound field as fertilizer before the rains.
Infield (futung)
of hill compound, shown by zuk piles.
Homeland farmstead;
millet, sorghum near compound; waffle ridges with peanuts, maize.
Transplanting late
millet into prepared ridges.
Terraces below
Latok, dry season.
Latok farmstead
with terraced hill in background.
Terraced hillside in
Bong; peanuts, acha (fonio), oil palms.
Sorghum.
Late millet in the
homeland.
Pennisetum millet
grain heads.
Brewing millet beer.