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Title

A compendium of Kafir laws and customs : including genealogical tables of Kafir chiefs and various tribal census returns / compiled by direction of Colonel Maclean, C.B. chief commissioner in British Kaffaria.

Author

Maclean, John, 1810-1874.

Publication

[Mount Coke, South Africa] : Printed for the Government of British Kaffraria. Mount Coke: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1858.

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Additional Authors

Wesleyan Mission Press, printer.

Description

vii, [1], 168 p., [3] folded leaves of plates; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• Xhosa (African people)
• Black people > South Africa
• Customary law > South Africa
• Bantu-speaking peoples
• Zululand (South Africa) > Social life and customs

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

1. Rev. H.H. Dugmore's papers -- 2. Chief commissioner's letter to Mr. Warner, Tambookie agent, dated 25th February, 1856 -- 3. Mr. Warner's notes: Laws and customs connected with their judicial and social systems ; Laws and customs connected with their system of superstition -- 4. Mr. Brownlee's notes: Crimes against the person, Crimes against property ; Laws relating to social state, &c. ; Laws relative to religion and other customs ; Miscellaneous matters -- 5. Chiefs in British Kaffraria. January, 1855 -- 6. Queries -- 7. Native law relative to land -- 8. Mr. Ayliff's remarks on the different kinds of food in use in Kaffraria -- 9. Addenda -- 10. Genealogical table of Kafir chiefs, notes by B. Nicholson -- Population return, British Kaffraria, 1857.

Call Number

Sc Rare 572.968-M (Maclean, J. Compendium of Kafir laws)

LCCN

09014896

OCLC

• 9272923
• NYPGR9272923-B

Author

Maclean, John, 1810-1874.

Title

A compendium of Kafir laws and customs : including genealogical tables of Kafir chiefs and various tribal census returns / compiled by direction of Colonel Maclean, C.B. chief commissioner in British Kaffaria.

Imprint

[Mount Coke, South Africa] : Printed for the Government of British Kaffraria. Mount Coke: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1858.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 572.968-M (accession no. B593879) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Wesleyan Mission Press, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 572.968-M (Maclean, J. Compendium of Kafir laws)