MANTIS AND HIS FRIENDS Bushman Folklore. Collected by the late Dr. W.H.I. Bleek and the late Dr. Lucy C. Lloyd. Illustrated with many reproductions of Bushman drawings
Author:	[Bleek (D.F.) Editor]
Subject:	BUSHMEN AND ROCK ART
Published:	Cape Town
Date:	1923
Price($):	$160.00
Price(£):	£95.00
Details:	68 pages, 4to (255 x 195 mm), 7 illustrations, original brown pictorial paper covered boards, titled and decorated on upper cover, signature on the front free endpaper, contents good
Catalogue Number:	28
Book Number:	#1439/9
Description:	'The tales in this volume were all written down in the seventies by my father, the late Dr. Bleek, and my aunt, the late Dr. Lucy Lloyd. They were dictated by Bushmen in their own language, and many of them were translated at once with the help of the narrators. Of the great number of stories collected then, some were published by my aunt in 1910 in 'Specimens of Bushman Folklore', but many are still left. Since her death I have been preparing some of these for publication, and have chosen as a first instalment the tales in which the Mantis or members of his family play a part.' From the introduction by Dorothea Bleek.
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