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Secret medicines, magic, and rites of the Kpelle tribe in Liberiaarticle 1949 • Welmers, William Everett, 1916
Kpelle • Africa > Western Africa
This document is based upon ethnographic data which were collected incidentally in the course of the author's linguistic research. Its principal subject is sáe, or Kpelle 'medicines'. Such medicines are owned by individuals and range in type from tho...