This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...peoples who surround them, without understanding the real meaning of these customs. Anyone who knows what a strange mixture of Paganism, Islamism, and Christianity was practiced in many Galla tribes after the Amara conquest will not be surprised at the present indeterminate state of Wdtta religion. The clothes of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...peoples who surround them, without understanding the real meaning of these customs. Anyone who knows what a strange mixture of Paganism, Islamism, and Christianity was practiced in many Galla tribes after the Amara conquest will not be surprised at the present indeterminate state of Wdtta religion. The clothes of the hunters of the central group are thus described by Cecchi6: "The men wear conical hats of monkey fur, and like the Galla of the poorer classes, they fasten around the body a large apron made of calfskin, of leopard or antelope hide.6 The women 1 Op. cit., vol. 5. 2 'Proben aus amarischen Volksmunde, ' op. cit. - Cf. A. Werner, 'The Utendi of Mwana Kupona, ' (Harv. Afr. Stud., Cambridge, 1917, vol. 1, p. 147-181). Evidently yaumu li-arafa is not " the day of judgment" but the aforesaid holiday. The importance of the 'Arafah in the life of the East African Mussulman has been pointed out to me by a Moslem Amara, a native of Wallo who called the feast of the Cross, the greatest feast of the Abyssinian Christians, "Yd-Kristy&n ArtifA, the 'Arafah of the Christians." Al lago Tsana, op. cit. 1 Op. cit., vol. 2, p. 368. 6 Also worn by the Amara countrymen who call it HrSrS. (Cf. Guidi, Vocabolario amarico, op. cit.) The Galla call it dakku. See song 71. pass under their shoulders a large leather band which they use as a sort of basket for carrying their children. The boys wear a skin which is knotted on one shoulder, leaving the other shoulder and the rear of the body uncovered." Massaja also says that they wear on their heads a hat of monkey fur, pyramidal in form. Among the Wdyto of the northern group who were photographed by Rosen, one has wrapped about him a band, perhaps of cotton cloth, which is knotted on one...
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Very Good. 1917. Five volume series, complete. Published in the course of the larger series, Harvard African Studies, of which these volumes comprise numbers 1, 2, 3, 8 and 10. Volumes 1, 3, 4 and 5 are bound in three quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, with paper spine labels. Volume 2 is bound in full cloth, with gilt-stamped titles. Each volume is a substantial quarto, well illustrated, containing a mixture of shorter papers and longer monographs in various topics of African (and African-American) anthropology, history and archaeology. Very little wear to any of the volumes; a very clean, bright set. (Subject: Africa. )
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