The Childhood of Man.

A Popular Account of the Lives, Customs and Thoughts of the Primiive Races. Translated by A.H.Keane. Contents: I.Personal Adornment; II.Tattooing; III.Tests of Manhood; IV.Origin of Labour; V.Dress-Language; VI.Sign and Gesture-Language; VII.The Drum Language; VIII.Drums and Drum-Dances; IX.Picture-Writing & Decoration; X.Animal-Stories of the Bushmen; XI.Funeral in Inner Africa; XII.The Ghost; XIII.Skull-Worship and Head-Hunting; XIV.Ancestor-Worship and Fetishism; XV.Secret Societies and Masks; XVI.The Mide; XVII.Sacre Animals; XVIII.The Tiwah and the Journey of the Dead Souls of the Dayaks; XIX.The Downfall of the God; XX.Shango the Typical Sun-God; XXI.On the Path of the Sun; XXII.Mankind on the Path of the Sun; XXIII.The Cunning Spider;XXIV. Origin of the World, Fall of the Sky, The Flood; XXV. The Theft of Fire; XXVI. Fire Worship; XXVII. The Discovery of Fire; XXVIII.The Stone Age; XXIX. The Iron Age; XXX. Early History of War; XXXI.Cannibals; XXXII. Warlike Peoples. 23cmsx 15cms x 5cms. Pp.504/8 (publisher's catalogue), 415 figure illustrations and plates, pp.29-30 facsimile page, a few minor spots, new endpapers. Bluecloth, gilt title to front and spine, gilt motif to front and illustration to spine, boards rubbed with uneven discolouration, wear to spine edges. Scarce. G+.

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Publisher: London: Seeley & Company Limited, 1909.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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