Author: KRIEG, K.H. & W. LOHSE,
Title: Kunst und Religion bei der Gbato-Senufo Elfenbeinküste. [1. Auflage/First edn.].
Description: Hamburg, Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde, 1981. Small 8°., original wrappers, title in white type and illustrations on front wrapper. 144pp. Many black/white ills. of which full-page, sketch-map of the region discussed and a fold. plate with key (illustrating an idealized picture of the Holy Hains von Kounoumon), both loosely inserted, illustrated list of motifs to illustrations of Ghosts, glossary, list of sources(literature & interviews), appendices, table of contents. [Wegweiser zur Vlkerkunde, Heft 26]. An interesting and well-documented publcation on the Gbato-Senufo tribe, Ivory Coast, supplying information on (:) the tribe itself and her traditional agriculture with innovations, plastic arts, manual crafts, amateurs and professionals, religion and divination, incl. the existence of secret societies, initiation-rites, definitions of the High God, ancestor worship, heresy, leaders and priests, cosmology and perception of after-life, &c. Very good copy. (some minimal chafing to extremities of wrappers).

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