African Folktales and Sculpture (Series XXXII)

Abstract

The two parts of this book, folktales and sculpture, coincide and interrelate only in part. The great sculpture area of native Africa encompasses practically all of the West Africa of the true Negro and most of the Bantu-speaking region centering in the Congo. For reasons not entirely understood, almost no plastic art of much interest has come from the Nilotic, the eastern and southern Bantu, and the Bushman-Hottentot areas. But for the folktale this does not hold. Rich stores of the folktale are encountered everywhere. This volume contains only a selection.