Publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and front panel.
xii + 303pp., 32 full page illustrations and map at rear.
Book is clean internally with a single library stamp on the front endpaper and a previous owner's name.
Chapters include:
On the Inhabitants (classification of tribes, physical characters, Keloids and tribal marks, tooth chipping etc.).
Religion and Magic (ancestor worship, evil spirits, morality, lycanthropy, divination, rain-making, food taboos).
Native Life (birth, naming, games, hut building, affection).
Funeral Rites (wailing and mourning, the grave).
Arts & Industries (trapping, ant-catching, ironwork).
Language and Oral Literature.
Tribal Organisation (the paramount chief, kinship counted through women, administration of justice, crime and punishment, slavery).
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 22.5 x 14.5 cm
- Sold By: Rare Paper
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