1914 Among the Primitive Bakongo a Record of Thirty Years' Close Intercourse with the Bakongo and Other Tribes of Equatorial Africa, with a Description of Their Habits, Customs, & Religious Beliefs

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work. This work describes the lives and culture of Bakongo, also known as the Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group that lived along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa. The author here describes the peculiarities, customs, religion, and laws of the Kongo people. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, and thirty-one plates. Written by John H. Weeks, a British missionary and African explorer. He lived in the Congo from 1882 to 1912. With eighteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, lacking one plate facing page 142.