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Illustrations

Map

Approximate location of sixty-four peoples mentioned in this book (drawn by John Flower)

Drawings in the text

East Coast sea-fishing trap

Forced-draught furnace for smelting iron ore

Ancestral figures from the country of the Ekoi, south-eastern Nigeria

The distribution of parts of a sacrificial beast among the Dinka

Karimojong cattle classification by hide markings

Wooden mask of the Ekpo Society, region of Benin

Soapstone carving from Great Zimbabwe

‘Nomoli’ soapstone figurine from the Mende country of Sierra Leone

Kalabari water-spirit mask in the form of a crocodile

Zither from the Kweri of Tanzania

Diagram of Dogon village

Imaginative reconstruction of an ancient burial chamber at Ukwu in eastern Nigeria

Wrought-iron figure of a long-horned cow from the old kingdom of Karagwe in north-western Tanzania

East African mtepe, coastal trading vessel with ‘sewn’ lashings

Interior of mosque at Zaria, northern Nigeria

Pattern of distribution of temples and domestic shrines in Oyo

Nineteenth-century tomb at Ununio, coast of Tanzania

Siwa or ceremonial horn from Lamu, north-eastern Kenya

African Christian Church symbol on hillside near Johannesburg

Anyanwu, The Awakening: by Ben Enwonwu, Lagos

Photographs (before text)

1. Akan shrine priest, central Ghana

2. Tallensi hut interior, northern Ghana 1965

3. Akan ceremonial stool, central Ghana

4. Ancient bronze ceremonial vessel, Ita Yemoo, Yorubaland

5. Ancient terracotta head, Ife, Yorubaland

6. Benin royal shrine, 1965

7. Balante village shrine, Guinea-Bissau 1967

8. Assembly for public ritual of Karimojong adult juniors, 1957

9. Assembly for public ritual of Karimojong elders, 1957

10. Small bronze figure representing an Akan ancestor

11. Spanish witches in flight, with attendant owl: aquatint from Goya’s Caprichos

12. A medieval ‘Witches’ Sabbath’: woodcut from Hans-Baldung Grien, 1510

13. A missionary opinion from Seven Sevens of Years and a Jubilee: a history of the S.I.M. by its founder

14. The bodies ‘spiritual’ and ‘natural’ of Bishop Thomas Beckingham (d. 1464) on his tomb at Wells Cathedral, Somerset

15. and 16. The annual ‘pilgrimage’ at Rocia, Alicante, Spain