1. 4. VIII. THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR 71

be the most important. The brands which each most commonly uses

for its animals are added, but of course many of the subsections use

variants

.

A. KiRATi (the ruling family at Harayz). They use .—i 1 •

the brand (a) or (b) and call it (probably by error) the I I I 1

ankarib ("bedstead ")

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B. DowLUNGA (the ruling family at Kuttum). They use . ...

the dingar {i.e. nugdra or small war-drum) with sticks as in \J \ \

the figure.

C. KiRWA. They use the tukdi ("reaping

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knife"), {a), or vary it to {h). They also use (c). ^ ~y ^

D. KuRUKURi. They use the ankarib, as {a), or as

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{b), but in the latter case call it a nugdra. ^ "T"

E. NiMiNGA. They use the brand as shewn. I I

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F. Um Kadarik. They use the rigl el ghordb ("crows-

foot") in the form shewn.

G. SuKURi. They use a rigl el ghordb in the form

shewn.

H. Waringa. They are said to be a branch of Sukuri. The figure shews their brand, which is alleged to represent

a sword hilt with an extra fine for the scabbard.

J. Ingunga. They are said to be a branch of the Kirati. i^—

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Their brand, round Kuttum, is as in the figure. /I\ I

VIII DAgu. One of the most ancient Darfurian races, one which now forms with the Birked and Bayko^ a distinct, albeit hetero-

geneous, negroid group in central Darfur, east and south-east of Gebel Marra, to the north of the Bakkara country proper, is the Dagu.

The grounds for any possible identification of these Dagu with

the Tagua branch of Zaghawa mentioned by Ibn Sa'id as living

forty days eastwards of Tadmekka, which is in the hilly country

north of Agades^, would be, so far as I am aware, nil, and neither Dagu nor Zaghawa lend any support to such theory either by their own traditions or by obvious physical characteristics.

Browne states^ that he gathered from native tales in Darfur about

1794, that "The Dageou race came originally from the north, having

^ For the spelling of these two names see note later under Birked.

^ See above sub Zaghawa, and Cooley, p. 30. The occasional spelling of Dagu

as "Tagu" alone leads me to mention the possibility of the identification by error of Dagu and Tagua.

» p. 280.