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Title : The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year : 1877 ( 1870s )
Authors : Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects : Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher : J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library : Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor : Brigham Young University-Idaho

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bscene fowl, forgetting that withoutit the towns of Yoruba would be uninhabit-able. . . . The turkey-buzzard perched onthe topmost stick of a blasted calabash treeis to the unromantic natives of Africa whatthe pea fowl is to more engaging Asians.It always struck me as the most appropriateemblem and heraldic bearing for decayedDahome. The Legba, or idol to whom the fowl issacred, is an abominable image, rudelymoulded out of clay, and represented in asquatting attitude. Sometimes Legbas headis of wood, with eyes and teeth made ofcowries, or else painted white. Legba ismostly a male deity, rarely a female, andthe chief object of the idol maker seems tobe that the worshipper shall have no doubton the su))ject. Legba sits in a little hutopen at the sides; and, as no one takes careof him, and no one dares to meddle withhim, the country is full of these queer littletemples, inside which the god is sometimesseen in tolerable preservation, but in mostcases has sunk into a mere hea)) of mud and
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(1.) CABOCEER AND SOLDIERS. (See page 556.)

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