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Great Benin; its customs, art and horrors (1903)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 · Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, ltd. · leaf 180

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Here is placed thefetish (pp. 32 and 33). The huts are rather larger than those we had previouslyseen, being about ten or twelve feet high on the inside, and some of the halls aboutforty feet long and twenty broad. They are for the most part built of clay andsurrounded by walls of the same… … Fig. 164.—The kings wall, Benin City, drawn by Mr. G. K. Jones, Daily Graphic, Jan. 15th, 1897. tank immediately underneath, and conveyed away underground by channels fromone room to another. (p. 71). And again, Their beds, which consist of mats, witha covering of coarse cotton cloth, are placed on…

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