Author: Littmann, Enno.
Title: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigre tribes: English translation.
Description: Leyden, Late E.J. Brill, 1910. XVII,344 pp. 25 b./w. figs (photographs) on plts. Rebound in later h.cloth binding (orig. covers mounted on the cover). 8vo. - Library stamp on verso of the front boards. (Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia by Enno Littmann, Vol. 2, 1910). Rare publication on the Tigre people. The Tigre are a nomadic agro-pastoralist community living in the northern, western, and coastal highlands of Eritrea (Gash-Barka, Anseba, Northern Red Sea regions of Eritrea and other regions too), as well as areas in eastern Sudan. - The present work contains an English translation of the Tigre text which appeared in the first volume op these publications.

Keywords: Ethnography Africa Etnografie / Afrika(Eritrea) Etnografie Afrika Etnografie / Afrika(Eritrea)