EXPLANATORY NOTES 



1. The illustrations are intended only to shew the shapes of the 

 brands and the part of the camel on which they are commonly placed. 

 The brands are therefore shewn in the illustrations on the right or on 

 the left indiscriminately. Part II should be consulted for information 

 as to the side on which the various brands are usually placed by the 

 respective sections using them. 



2. In Part I names of brands that when transliterated into English 

 have an initial A or E will be found together as though all began 

 with A. 



3. In the illustrations the normal position and form of the brand 

 is marked by a red line : various alternatives in position and form of 

 the brand that occur are, when a separate illustration is not given, 

 shewn by dotted red lines. 



4. A few brands that are often met with in Kordofan, though not 

 belonging to Kordofan tribes, are illustrated and named. 



5. Where it happens that a single brand is known by different 

 names to different tribes, I have, whenever mentioning it, given it the 

 name by which it is known to the tribe to which allusion is being made 

 at the time. 



6. For the sake of consistency and accuracy several names of 

 brands which are commonly pronounced as though beginning with a G, 

 but which are spelt with a (e.g. KILADA or GIL^DA) will be found 

 spelt with a K and not with a G. 



7. Names of brands and of tribes, sections, and subsections, are 

 printed in capitals. 



8. Names of sections of tribes are placed in brackets after the name 

 of the tribe. Names of subsections of sections are preceded by and 

 placed after the name of the section. 



9. The following abbreviations are used : 



B = Beni 

 A = Awlad 

 G = Gebel 

 = Subsection 



Fig. = Figure 

 pi. = plural 

 sing. = singular 

 Ar. = Arabic 



