Africana Collectanea Volume L. Numbered Edition No. 891 of 1000. Facsimile reprint of the 1925 edition.
Dust jacket edgeworn. Red fauz leather with gilt logo and gilt titles on spine.
29 b/w photographs. Fold-out sketch map at the back. Pages 318.
Rev. Samuel Shaw Dornan (1871-1941) based his book on first-hand information and investigations while working as a missionary and doing survey work in the area now known as Botswana. His personal observations are of great interest. Chapters on the material culture, customs and beliefs of the people of the Kalahari. A large part of this book is devoted to the Bushmen but Dorman also deals with the Herero, Hottentot groups and the Tswana.
Samuel Shaw Dornan was one of the major ethnographers of the years prior to the First World War. He was born in County Down in Ireland in 1871. He migrated to South Africa and served in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, subsequently joining the Paris Evangelical Mission in Basutoland. He also worked as a government surveyor in that territory before moving to Southern Rhodesia, where he worked in the Native Presbyterian Mission and conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the border with the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana). https://historywiki.therai.org.uk/index.php?title=Samuel_Shaw_Dornan
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- Size: 8vo (220 x 150 mm)
