Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 6

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 6: Proverbs, Stories, Tones in Ibo

The proverbs in this volume were collected in various towns in the Asaba district from natives of the towns. No attempt has been made to systematise the transcription in view of the fact that differences of pronunciation exist between town and town. The stories were with one exception collected from members of my own staff, and the same is true of the phonograph records on which the study of tones is based.

Duplicate records are deposited in the Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge, in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and in the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, S. E., where students can consult them.

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