Among the Primitive Bakongo: A Record of Thirty Years' Close Intercourse with the Bakongo and Other Tribes of Equatorial Africa, with a Description of their Habits, Customs, & Religious Beliefs

The scarce first edition of John H. Weeks's study of the Kongo people, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this scarce work, which describes the lives and culture of Bakongo, also known as the Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group that lived along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa.The author - missionary and explorer John H. Weeks - describes the customs, religion, and laws of the Kongo people, amongst whom he lived from 1882 to 1912.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, and thirty-one further plates on which forty photographs are printed. Collated, complete.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A smart copy of this cultural study. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, discolouration to back strip with handling marks to tail of front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with spotting and light handling marks throughout. Very Good.