The Tribal Markings and Marks of Adornment of the Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Colony by Captain C. H. Armitage
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The Tribal Markings and Marks of Adornment of the Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Colony by Captain C. H. Armitage, published in 1924. An early anthropological study documenting the scarification patterns, bodily ornamentation, and systems of visual identity practiced among the peoples of what is now northern Ghana. Issued for the Gold Coast Government by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the work combines descriptive ethnographic text with photographic and illustrative plates recording regional traditions of adornment, social status, and cultural symbolism. A period colonial-era resource reflecting early twentieth-century anthropological field documentation in West Africa. Softcover in wraps as issued with light shelfwear.
