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203: 191: 20: 234:. If substantiated by a chemical analysis, this claim would make the giraffe the first mammal to be discovered to contain a hallucinogen in its bodily tissues, and the Humrawi the first people to have discovered the existence of such a mammal. Ian Cunnison, who accompanied the Humr on some of their giraffe-hunting expeditions in the late 1950s, noted that: 133:
Ian Cunnison lists the clans of the two divisions of the Humr as the Ajaira consisting of the Fayyarin, Awlád Kamil, Mezaghna, Fadliya, Menama and Addal clans, and the Felaita consisting of the Metanin, Ziyud, Awlád Serur, Jubarat and Salamat clans.
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Cunnison's account of a psychoactive mammal found its way into a mainstream literature through a conversation between
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It is said that a person, once he has drunk umm nyolokh, will return to giraffe again and again. Humr, being
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The Humur are most commonly known outside the Sudan as the preparers of a drink made from the
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or beer. But he uses this word to describe the effects which umm nyolokh has upon him.
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grouping. The territory of the Humr lies in the eastern part of this belt in the
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might account for the putative intoxicating properties of umm nyolokh.
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and specialist on the use of hallucinogens and intoxicants in society
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Cunninson, Ian (1980). "Giraffe Hunting among the Humr Tribe".
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Baggara Arabs: Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
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of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the
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Wakeel, Ahmed S. El; Gumaa, Abuelgasim Yousif (1996).
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Domestic scene, circa 1850, showing men drinking, in
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The people who govern each tribe are known as the "
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Index


Chad
Sudan
Baggara
Kordofan
Arabic
romanized
lit.
Messiria
Baggara
Kordofan
Sudan
Chadian Arabic
Babanusa
Muglad
Arabic
Abyei
Anthropologist
Nazir
Arabic
lit.
hunters
elephants
giraffe

Kordofan

Kordofan giraffe
liver
bone marrow

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