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Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. Introd. by Frederick Starr.
1914
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- Publisher
- New York, Neale Pub. Co., 1914.
- People
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- Language
- English
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- Title
- Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. Introd. by Frederick Starr.
- Call Number
- N-003255
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc9p290r23c
- Publisher
- New York, Neale Pub. Co., 1914.
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1914
- Format
- Book
- Extent
- 290 pages illustrations 21 cm
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Princeton copy 1 From the Cromwell library, with an inscription to John Wesley Cromwell by Arturo Schomburg: "to my bosom friend / JW Cromwell / with sincere / appreciation / Schomburg / N.Y."
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 350
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/eca4ddbe-15c5-42c4-9131-a70425a59e0a/manifest