Read via the Internet Archive (snapshot 2003-01-01). Keana, 67 km from Lafia; salt mined by local technology 'for about 700 years'; process: salty soil in sets of three pots on a hollowed palm trunk, pond brine poured through, filtrate boiled in pots until it solidifies; only clay pots allowed into the pond; huts per lineage, inherited; mining exclusively women's work, men help drain the pond after heavy rain; peak in the dry season; Onyarore: a seven-day festival of thanksgiving for the salt harvest and the start of a new year, usually in November, dated by the Osana, 'chief custodian of the salt mine', who presides; climax 'wife lottery' (spear thrown by the Osana); festival 'no longer very popular' (2002); legend: salt found about 1232 AD by Akeana Adi while hunting; Alago-speaking people; 1995 UNDP/state trip of nine women to India; federal solar drying pit; salt also at Akiri (Awe LGA). Sources quoted: the state commissioner for tourism and culture, Hamza Elayo Mohammed, and two women miners.