The Victoria Nyanza - The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. With a Map and 372 Illustrations from Native Objects in the Author's Own Collections.

Langue : anglais

Edité par London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899

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17 cm x 24 cm. IX, 254 pages. Large fold-out map of region near front. Hardcover [publisher's original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt design and blind tooling to front board. Deckled edges. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some signs of foxing to edges and throughout. Binding strong and firm. Interior unmarked. From the library of Hugh Marshall Hole, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Hole's name also in form of a name-stamp on front endpaper and titlepage. Rare ! But rather scarce in this excellent condition ! Includes, for example, the following: General Description - The Victoria Nyanza in ancient times / Uganda - Hamitic immigration from the north-east - Wahuma: history of the country in modern days - Tattooing -Musical Instruments - Head-dress, Ussoga - Religion and culture / Karagwe - The Kagera Plain and River - Tattooing - Ornament - Weapons - Disposal of the dead / Kisiba - Flora and fauna - Geology - Bands of music - Superstitions - Modes of salutation -Magicians - Burial / Ussindja - Ruhinda - Fetish huts - Spears, knives, bows, arrows, quivers, clubs, shields / Ukerewe - Walking-sticks - Backgammon - Ancestor-worship / Ussukuma - Speke Gulf - Immigration - Dwellings - Musical instruments - Dances - Songs - Magicians - Rainmakers - God - Devil - Fetishes - Marriage -Adultery - Birth - Death / Ushashi and Kindred Tribes of the Massai from Ikoma as far as Ngoroine - Language - Agriculture - Magic / Philological Notes - General - One Hundred and Twenty-Five Sentences in Six Dialects - Vocabularies - A Tales in the Uganda Dialect etc. In the preface Kollmann outlines the aims of the book: "In presenting to the reader a description of the races inhabiting the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, the most extensive fresh-water basin of Central Africa, exhibiting their custom and usages, their mode of life and their ethnographic relations, I have a twofold object in view: to record in detail the results of my observations and the contents of my collections, and to awaken public interest in the most beautiful region of Germany's East African colony, destined in no great time to play an important part in colonial enterprise." (p.vi).

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Titre
The Victoria Nyanza - The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. With a Map and 372 Illustrations from Native Objects in the Author's Own Collections.
Auteur
Kollmann, Paul [trans. Nesbitt, H.A. / Hole, Hugh Marshall ]
Éditeur
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
Année de publication
1899
État de l'article
Wie neu
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
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