In Witch-Bound Africa, An Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and their Beliefs
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1923.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, indexed, with 47 illustrations (most from photographs) and 3 maps (1 folding). Publisher's orange cloth stamped in black, with image of a native with bow and arrow on the front board. Some dust soiling, spine lightly sunned, occasional foxing. Ethnographic study of the Bakonde and their neighbors inhabiting the Kasempa District of Northern Rhodesia. Discusses tribal customs surrounding childhood, marriage, puberty and pregnancy, and death and burial; religious practices, witchcraft, divination, charms and talismans, omens and dreams, hunting, warfare, etc. Also includes a chapter on the Kongamoto, a mysterious, pterosaur-like flying animal that today remains a subject of cryptozoological speculation.
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