The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa

Description

The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa is a book by British ethnographer Alfred Burdon Ellis, first published in 1894. Chapters include: Chief Gods; Minor Gods; Remarks On The Foregoing; Priests And Worship; Egungun, Oro, Abiku, And Various Superstitions; The In-Dwelling Spirits And Souls Of Men; Measurements Of Time; Ceremonies At Birth, Marriage, And Death; Proverbs; and, Folk-Lore Tales.

Note: This edition omits chapters 10, 11, 12, and the Appendix as they are not available online.

This book has 64,254 words, 109 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1894.

Production notes: This ebook of The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa was published by Global Grey on the 12th November 2022. The artwork used for the cover is 'Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles' by Vassily Kandinsky.