The archaeological site of Kuulo Kataa lies 1.5 km west of Dumpofie, a small village home to the majority of Kuulo people today (Fig. 5.1). Kuulo Kataa marks where Wurache, the Kuulo ancestress, descended to earth on a chain from the sky. Although there are minor variations in the Wurache story, it is one of the few local oral histories told in narrative form. In this sense it approximates what Vansina (1985) distinguishes as oral tradition. I was told the story in 1986 by the senior female elder of Kuulo Katoo (Stahl and Anane 1989; Stahl 1991). The woman spoke deliberately, pausing occasionally to be certain that my research assistant and I were up to speed. It was a story she had told many times before, presumably to instill a sense of identity in Kuulo children around the hearth, an identity no longer marked by the Kuulo language (Chapter 3).