Research Catalog

Title

The lower Niger and its tribes / by Major Arthur Glyn Leonard.

Author

Leonard, Arthur Glyn

Publication

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Macmillan & Co., publisher.
• R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer.
• Edward Stanford Ltd., cartographer.

Description

xxii, 564 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : color map; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Nigeria > Religion
• Publishers' advertisements > England > London
• Nigeria > Description and travel
• Ethnology > Nigeria
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Publishers' advertisements – England – London.
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• Publisher's logo on verso of half-title page.
• Includes index.
• Folded map title: Southern Nigeria / London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London.
• "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh."--colophon, page 564.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• is also part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface [by A.C. Haddon] -- Introduction -- A geographical and traditional outline -- The philosophy of the people as expressed in words, names, proverbs, and fables -- The natural religion of the various tribes -- The naturism of the Delta -- The dualism of the natives -- Spirit land and spiritualism -- The spiritualism of the physical -- Emblemism, or The embodiment of the spirit -- The ceremonials and practices of naturism -- The demonology of the people as practised in witchcraft -- Appendix A. A glimpse into the grammatical construction of the various tongues. ; Appendix B. The primitive philosophy of words. ; Appendix C. The further mentality and the deeper humanity of names.

Call Number

Sc 299.6-L (Leonard, A. Lower Niger and its tribes)

LCCN

07011550

OCLC

• 535321
• NYPGR535321-B

Author

Leonard, Arthur Glyn, author.

Title

The lower Niger and its tribes / by Major Arthur Glyn Leonard.

Publisher

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 5, page 4068, column 2, row 3

Provenance

Copy 1 in Sc 299.6-L (accession no. B593933) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Copy 2 in Sc 299.6-L (accession no. B429068) is also part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy 1 in Sc 299.6-L; lacking second leaf of publisher's advertisements (p. 3-4 at end).

Copy 2 in Sc 299.6-L; Imperfect: brittle, some pages are unaopen; bound brown cloth, library binding, and gilt spine.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Added Author

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer.

Edward Stanford Ltd., cartographer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 299.6-L (Leonard, A. Lower Niger and its tribes)

QPE (Leonard, A. G. Lower Niger and its tribes)