Other crops include eggplant, peppers, winged bean, lettuce and snake gourd.
One lies on the floor with just a gourd to rest one's head on and one another way up to have a little water.
Against that, there are the destitute who have no money or resources, and who have a gourd and very little else.
Within this group there are gourds that often have a higher % of fruit weight as seeds and large pumpkins with much lower % of fruit weight as seeds.
Bottle gourd, amaranth and pumpkin were the three most common species, being cultivated on more than 70% of the platforms.
Tutuola's language will lose none of its poetry, his style will not lose character if he is told that 'gourd' is not spelled 'guord'.
The husks of the corn and the gourds would biodegrade, and nothing would be left of the festival except the memory of it in the minds of the par ticipants.
When the vine was cut down, voices were heard inside the gourds.
