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The fetish folk of West Africa

Title
  1. The fetish folk of West Africa / by Robert H. Milligan ; illustrated.
Published by
  1. New York : Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company, [1912]
  2. ©1912.
Author
  1. Milligan, Robert H.

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Additional authors
  1. Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
Description
  1. 328 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Missions > Africa, West
  2. Gabon > Description and travel
  3. Fe'fe' (Cameroonian people)
  4. Ethnology > Gabon
  5. Mpongwe (African people)
  6. Fetishism > Africa, West
  7. Missions > Gabon
  8. Africa, West > Description and travel
  9. Ethnology > Africa, West
Contents
  1. 1. The white man's grave -- 2. "The wise ones" -- 3. A dying tribe -- 4. A living remnant -- 5. African music -- 6. Pests -- 7. The "cannibal" fang -- 8. Manners and customs -- 9. Funeral customs -- 10. The "Dorothy" -- 11. Schoolboys -- 12. A school -- 13. The mental degredation of Fetishism -- 14. The moral degredation of Fetishism -- 15. Fetishism and the cross -- 16. Missions and social progress -- 17. The critics -- 18. Saints among savages.
Call number
  1. Sc 916.72-M (Milligan, R. H. Fetish folk of West Africa)
Note
  1. With a half-title; advertisement for other work by author on verso of half-title page.
  2. "London and Edinburgh" follow the publisher's name in imprint on title page.
  3. "Copyright, 1912, by Fleming H. Revell Company."--verso of title page.
Provenance (note)
  1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Milligan, Robert H., author.
Title
  1. The fetish folk of West Africa / by Robert H. Milligan ; illustrated.
Publisher
  1. New York : Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company, [1912]
Copyright date
  1. ©1912.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc 916.72-M (accession no. B429207) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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  2. Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)
Added author
  1. Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
LCCN
  1. 13000925
Research call number
  1. Sc 916.72-M (Milligan, R. H. Fetish folk of West Africa)
  2. QPE (Milligan, R. H. Fetish folk of West Africa)
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