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Title: Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa

Author: Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

Author of introduction, etc.: R. R. Marett

Release date: December 16, 2016 [eBook #53746]
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Language: English

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AMONG THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF FORMOSA

MAN AND WOMAN OF YAMI TRIBE IN REGALIA WORN AT THE SPRING FESTIVAL IN HONOUR OF THE SEA-GOD.

(See page 149.)

AMONG THE HEAD-HUNTERS
OF FORMOSA

By JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN, B.L.

Diplomée in Anthropology, University of Oxford

WITH A PREFACE BY
R. R. MARETT, M.A., D.Sc.
READER IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

ILLUSTRATED

T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE

First published in 1922

TO
W. M. M.
MY SON AND THE COMPANION
OF MY WANDERINGS

“No human thought is so primitive as to have lost bearing on our own thought, or so ancient as to have broken connection with our own life.”

E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture.