Hippo Killing and Rarak Adornment Annotations in Kiswahili

Annotations for a text corpus concerning hippo killing and rarak adornment practices. The dataset contains 86,723 annotations in the EAF (ELAN Annotation Format), focusing on cultural and conservation-related topics in Kiswahili. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Use Cases

• Linguistic analysis of Swahili terminology related to hippo hunting and adornment.
• Cultural anthropology research into specific ritual or material practices (rarak adornment).
• Training or evaluating natural language processing models for low-resource African languages.
• Documenting indigenous knowledge and practices for cultural heritage preservation.

Strengths

• Contains a substantial volume of 86,723 annotations.
• Provides specialized cultural and linguistic annotations in Kiswahili, a lower-resource language.
• Cross-platform presence on figshare indicates established sharing and potential for reuse.

Limitations

• Column names and a detailed data schema are not provided, limiting understanding of the annotation structure.
• The row count is not explicitly stated, making the dataset's granularity unclear.
• Documentation is sparse, with no description of the annotation methodology or source text corpus.

Provenance

Source

Wanjage Wairimu

Collection Method

Annotations on a text corpus; specific methodology unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-23.