Abstract
IN many ways this is a most interesting and suggestive volume, nor can its significance be measured entirely by the number of new and important facts recorded in it. If we except Mr. J. W. Crowfoot's archæological studies, not only is this the first piece of precise work of any magnitude dealing with an ethnological subject produced by an officer in the service of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, but since the Government has borne the expense of its publication it furnishes a further example of that enlightened spirit which has already led the Government to find the funds necessary to start an ethnographical survey on a small scale. Considering that the part played by the Sudan Government in the production of this volume is perfectly well known, it is perhaps a pity that the book contains no definite statement on the subject, since its appearance may be looked upon as the first fruits of the sensible forward scientific policy in favour in the Sudan. This, indeed, is the aspect of general public importance with which ethnologists and historians are most concerned.
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The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan 1 . Nature 91, 11–12 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091011a0
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