The ancestors of the Dei seem to have migrated from the present-day Guinea down along the St. Paul, then westward.
According to a Dei founding legend told by Gbii Woso, a descendent of the landholding lineage, the group descended from the marriage of a father, Zie, who emerged from the water, and Dewulo, a mother who previously lived with her parents in a cave.
Footnote: Bureau of Folkways, 1955, p. 41.
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