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Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria

Printed pages from Northcote Thomas's 1914 anthropological report showing Igbo folktales and English translations.
Pages from Northcote Thomas's Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria; Part IV: Proverbs, Stories, Tones in Ibo (London, 1914).

A photograph depicting three sequential pages (81, 82, and 83) from Northcote Thomas's 1914 publication, Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Part IV: Proverbs, Stories, Tones in Ibo. The pages feature a dual-script format with a primary language using a modified Latin alphabet with extensive diacritics, accompanied by English translations. Page 81 includes the story of the blind man, cripple, poor man, thief and the king (Record 613), and page 83 begins the story of the poor man's son and the rich man's son (Record 614). The document exhibits age-related yellowing of the paper and utilizes a serif typeface.

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