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IN “Tales told in Togoland”, Mr. Cardinall has made a valuable addition to the literature both of the folk-tale and of ethnography. His stories are drawn from the peoples of that part of the former German colony which has been attached to the Gold Coast for administrative purposes. In the belt of it with which he deals more particularly are peoples who are entirely unknown to anthropological science, some of them retaining traces of their ancient customs which are untouched by outside contact.
Tales told in Togoland.
By A. W. Cardinal. To which is added the Mythical and Traditional History of Dagomba, by E. F. Tamakloe. (Published for the International Institute of African Languages and Culture.) Pp. vi + 290. (London: Oxford University Press, 1931.) 16s. net.
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Tales told in Togoland . Nature 128, 1026 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/1281026a0
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