Dombo
The Dombo are called Goren by the Gadaba (in Gutob). In Gudapada, they are the most numerous group after the village founders, with twenty-seven
Figure 4: Marriage Alliances between Messing (in Gudapada) and Gangre (kutum). An arrow stands for the gift of a classificatory sister. The dashed lines separate the generations. The affinal groups in Gudapada do not marry only Gangre women, but also women from outside the village.
houses.[1] [2] They are divided into two groups (kutum), the “lower” (tole) and the “upper” (upore) Dombo, in reference to their location on the hillside,^ and they belong to the Bear (kimdu) descent category. They assume themselves to be descended from a common ancestor, and some of them can still name the pair of brothers who founded the present kutum. As a matter of principle, their membership in the Bear bonso designates them as bondu of the Gangre, who are Cobras. Nevertheless, the Dombo describe only the Kirsani as such; they consider the Sisa their tsorubai.
