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Weeks, John H.

Among the Primitive Bakongo; A Record of Thirty Years' Close Intercourse with the Bakongo and Other Tribes of Equatorial Africa, with a Description of their Habits, Customs & Religious Beliefs

1914

151.34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1914
Place of printing
Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Company
Author
Weeks, John H.
Keyword
Travel - Africa Native Peoples Anthropology
Languages
English

Description

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, 318 pp, frontis, 40 illus, including full-page from photos, folding detailed map, partly in color, index. original red pictorial gilt cloth (with picture of native in Buffalo disguise), top edge gilted, with gilt lettering on spine, light foxing, a very bright, unworn cover, fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Work 64. The author describes the people of the Lower Congo and his extensive travels in the area, with sections on court etiquette, language and proverbs, native foods and drinks, social life, Congo women and their ways, native amusements, curses, fetishes, warfare, hunting, black magic and white magic, religion, etc. An appendix lists native diseases and their remedies.

Edizione: first american edition, published same year as first english edition.