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Add. MS b/37/263
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Copy letter from N. W. Thomas to J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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7 Coptic St. W.C. 3 August, 1904 - Dennett's MS has yet to be revised as he is away; is puzzled by the Wilyaru Ceremony in [Spencer and Gillen's book 'The Northern Tribes of Central Australia']; encloses a transcript from an author who is now dead, 'Buléon, Sous le Ciel d'Afrique, Abbeville, 1896, 8. Refers referring to the Nkomis of Cape Lopez, Portuguese West Africa. p. 90' about an initiation ceremony in which the life of the initiate is linked to that of a wild animal.
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- French
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- Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1868-1936) anthropologist and psychical researcher (Subject)
- Dennett, Richard Edward (1857-1921) anthropologist (Subject)
- Buléon, Joachim Pierre (1862-1900) French missionary (Subject)
- Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin (1860–1929) Knight, biologist and anthropologist (Subject)
- Gillen, Francis James (1855-1912) Australian anthropologist and ethnologist (Subject)