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ALTHOUGH the actual text of this book comprises only 14 pages, a great deal of reliable and interesting information is given on the physical characters and culture of the Bushman tribes. This information is supplemented by a useful map showing the distribution of the various tribal units. It would, perhaps, have been a useful addition to have provided a short key to the rather baffling System of phonetics employed in writing native words. Condensation was naturally necessary in so brief an introduction, but this brevity is in certain cases rather unsatisfactory. It is tantalizing to be told that: “In all tribes they make rain in some manner”, but to be given no hint as to the procedure adopted in any tribe.
The Bushman Tribes of Southern Africa
A. M. Duggan-Cronin; with an Introductory Article on the Bushman Tribes and Descriptive Notes on the Plates, by D. F. Bleek. Pp. v + 15 + 40 plates. (Kimberley: Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, 1942.)
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JONES, F. The Bushman Tribes of Southern Africa. Nature 152, 147 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152147c0
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