Identifier: fetichisminwesta00nass Title: Fetichism in West Africa; forty years' observation of native customs and superstitions Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921 Subjects: Fetishism -- Africa, West Ethnology -- Africa, West Publisher: www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Text Appearing After Image: Fetich Magician.(With horns, wooden mask, spear, and sword ; dress of leaves of pahn and plantain.) FETICHISM U°CTi^IN WEST AFRICA Forty Tears Observation of Native Customsand Superstitions BY THE REV. ROBERT HAMILL ^NASSAU, M.D., S.T.D. FOR FORTY YEARS A MISSIONARY IN THE GABUN DISTRICTOF KONGO-FRANCAISE AUTHOR OF CROWNED IN PALM LAND, «* MAWEDO ** WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK . CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS1904 Copyright, igo4By Charles Scribners Sons Published October, 1904 UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. PREFACE ON the 2d of July, 1861,1 sailed from New York City ona little brig, the Ocean Eagle, with destination tothe island of Corisco, near the equator, on the West Coast ofAfrica. My first introduction to the natives of Africa wasa month later, when the vessel stopped at Monrovia, thecapital of the Liberian Republic, to land a portion of itstrade goods, and at other ports of Liberia, Sinoe, and CapePalmas; thence to Corisco on September 12. Corisco is a microcosm, only fivefetichisminwesta00nass Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.