Such dances are performed by the Tshi women in the absence of the men (A.
The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking and Yoruba Speaking People of West Africa.
This word is pronounced by the natives and by people knowing them, Cheuwe, as Ellis undoubtedly knew, but presumably he spelt it Tshi to please the authorities.
I have no personal acquaintance with Yorubaland, but have no hesitation for myself in accepting his statements from the accuracy I have found them, by personal experience with Tshi and Ewe people, to possess.
Look at Srahmantin of the Tshi people, and at Nzambi of the Fjort.
In this district you have a school where reincarnation is strongly believed in, a different school of Fetish to that of Tshi and Ewe, a class of human ghosts called the well-disposed ones.
Ancestor-esteem you will find at its highest pitch in West Africa under the school of Fetish that rules the Tshi and Ewe peoples.
The Volta provides the approximate limit between the Tshi tongues and the Eve or Ewe dialects.
The true domain of the populations speaking the languages of the Tshi or Ochi family begins only on the east of Apollonia.
The nonsense-words in the songs may be corrupted from Tshi or some cognate language, but a fuller knowledge of these than I possess would be necessary in order to determine the point.
The usualTshi name for them appears to be bonsum or bossum: the word "duppy" I have been unable to trace.
Major Ellis only met this passage when he had formed his own ideas by observation of the Tshi race.
The Tshi people took neither effigy nor name of a deity from the Portuguese settled among them.
Unfortunately, Major Ellis gives no evidence for his statements about the past history of Tshi religion.
The Ga of the Volta delta are here bracketed with the Tshi because A.
Ki´tshi Man´idō provides the speaker with the necessary food for the maintenance of life.
Ki´tshi Man´idō, and the degree is owned by the Thunder Bird as shown in Nos.
In his condition he appeals to Ki´tshi Man´idō for aid.
This form of preparation is deemed agreeable to Ki´tshi Man´idō, whose favor is constantly invoked that the candidate may be favored with the powers supposed to be conferred in the last degree.
The preparation is undertaken only after an offering to Ki´tshi Man´idō of tobacco and a Midē´ song with rattle accompaniment.
The place “from afar” refers to the abode of Ki´tshi Man´idō.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tshi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
