Origin of the Negro Spirituals and African Tribal Customs
n.p. n.d. [19--?]. Paperback. photos, 20p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Lower corner somewhat bent. Final interior page indicates that Prince Larnardo and his Royal African Singers were available [to be booked?] for concerts at 200 East Milwaukee St. in Janesville, Wisconsin and implies that this group had done a "A benefit for Prentiss Normal and Indistrial School Prentiss, Mississippi." Prince Larnardo writes about Bastuoland on pages 14 and 15 where he says that Klad-ty-ku, the Prince's father, was King of the Basuda Tribe ruling over 23 villages. He describes a wedding, said to represent the customs of the Nyida Tribe, which included the prospective groom drinking Pombe which, made by boiling the inner bark of a tree called Ymbem and mixing that with several other ingredients from the jungle. It seems to have caused the prospective grtoom to walk around in a trance for ten or more days and speak in a high falsetto voice. It seems possible to us that some of this was not entirely accurate. Very Good. Item #95333
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