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The Tiv tribebook chapter 1933 • Downes, Roger Meaden
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This document, although brief, presents a well-organized account of the life of the Tiv people and provides a valuable supplement to the works of Abraham and East. Downes stresses the ancestral basis for most of the Tiv magico-religious beliefs and h...