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London 1929, Hutchinson. Red cloth, 288p., 75 sepia photos, 2 maps, 1 large color folding, 11 text diagrams, very good, bit of usual wear at spine head, else contents very clean & bright,index,17 x 25.5 cm.,solid example. RARE FIRST EDITION . *** **** *** . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE & ETHNIC STUDY . . . INTRODUCTION BY ETHNOLOGIST C.G. SELIGMAN . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 75 FINE SEPIA PHOTOGRAPHS . * THE AUTHOR: Edward Owen Rutter [1889-1944] was an English historian, novelist and travel writer. He served with the North Borneo Civil Service from 1910 to 1915. . * CONTENTS: Chapter headings: From Past to Present, The Distribution of the Pagansk Personal Characteristics, Social Organization, Agriculture, Jungle &River Craft, Arts & Manufactures, Trade & Barter, Pagan Law, Headhunting and War, Beliefs and Ceremonies, Folklore. . With appendices: a. Comparative vocabulary of Murut and Dusun dialects. b. Original versions of urut chants given in the text. With copious bibliography & index, list of plates. Large color folding map tipped in at the end. . *** CONDITION: In original red cloth with gilt stamped spine titles. Spine & back cover a bit sunned, lower front cover & first fly leaf bottom edge a bit damped, else very clean, solid & complete example. . *** REFERENCES: Books by Owen: 1920 The Song of Tiadatha 1921 Chandu (Opium) (London: Queensway Press) 1922 British North Borneo: An Account of Its History, . Resources and Native Tribes (London: Constable and Co Ltd) 1922 The Travels of Tiadatha (London: T. Fisher Unwin) 1923 The Dragon of Kinabalu. Bornean folk-tales 1923 Through Formosa: An Account of Japan's Island Colony 1939 White Rajah (London: Hutchinson and Co.) 1940 The Scales of Karma And many others. *.
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