Ashanti proverbs: (the primitive ethics of a savage people) translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes

by Robert Sutherland Rattray

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200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

From Wikipedia:

Robert Sutherland Rattray, GBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938), was a barrister and held a diploma in Anthropology from Oxford. He was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights.