Marriage and Home Life (Figs. 1-29) 1. Conjugal love 2. Conjugal love (with pillow) 3. Conjugal love with pillows for head and feet - a symbol of affluence 4. Conjugal love with pillow 5. Dispute between spouses 6. Violent dispute between spouses 7. One who instigates discord between spouses 8. A woman with six children and her husband; a pillow is between them 9. Two wives with their children (a), of one man (b), with the roof-tree of the house (c) 10. A house (a) in which are three women and a man 11. Two women with many children in the house with their husband 12. Two women on each side of a house; one on each side has a child 13. A woman with child (general sign) 14. The same; if written by a man, it means his wife is with child 15. Palaver (general term) 16. A woman who desires separation from her husband 17. A woman who wishes to divorce her husband 17A. Embracing (per Mr. Maxwell) 18. A courtesan 19. Two women who live in the same house have disagreements every time they meet; a third woman is entering 20. A man who approaches a married woman and proposes cohabitation 21. Three men who vied for the same married woman and quarreled because of her 22. Adultery: a man (a), woman (b), husband (c), compensation (d), recipients (e) 23. A man leaving a woman; he curses her and departs 24. Unrequited love 25. Heart with genuine affection 26. Heart without genuine affection 27. Inconstant heart 28. Two persons concur in love 29. A woman bathing in the river watched by her husband (sign of protection in war)
Common Articles of the House (Figs. 30–44) 30. Juju hung over a door or road to protect a house 31. Firewood 32. Looking glass 33. Looking glass (also for man with mirror) 34. Native mat (bed) 35. Gourd for a drinking cup 36. Native comb 37. Toilet soap 38. Basin and water 39. Calabash with 400 chittims inside it 40. Slaves 41. Fire
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