Childhood of Man a Popular Account of the Lives, Customs and Thoughts of the Primitive Races by Leo Frobenius

Childhood of Man a Popular Account of the Lives, Customs and Thoughts of the Primitive Races by Leo Frobenius translated by A.H. Keane, published in 1909. Sections Include: Personal Adornment, Tattooing, Tests of Manhood, Dress Language, Sign and Gesture, The Drum Language, Drum and Drum Storage, Skull Worship and Head Hunting, Ancestor Worship and Fetishism, Secret Societies and Masks, The Mide, Sacred Animals, The Tiwah and the Journey of the Dead Souls of the Dayaks, The Downfall of God, Shango the Typical Sun God, On the Path, Mankind on the Path of the Sun, The Cunning Spider, Origin of the World, Fall of the Sky, The Flood, The Theft of Fire, Cannibals, etc. etc. Hardcover with gilt decoration on covers and spine with light shelfwear to corners and ends.