Identifier: uncivilizedraces01wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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(1.) CABOCEER AND SOLDIERS. (See page 556.)
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(2.) PUNISHMENT OF A SNAKE KILLER. (See page 565.) (564) PUKISHMEXT OF SKAKE KILLER. 565 dust. Some of these wooden Legbas maybe seen on the •oo2nd page, but they are pur-posely selected on account of the excep-tional delicacy displayed by the carver. Snakes are fetish throughout Dahome,and are protected by the severest laws. Allserpents are highly venerated, but there isone in particular, a harmless snake calledthe Danhghwe, which is held in the mostabsurd reverence. It is of moderate size,reaching some five or six feet in length, andIS rather delicately colored with brown, yel-low, and white. The Danhgbwe is kepttame in fetish houses, and, if one of themshould stray, it is carefully restored by theman who finds it, and who grovels on theground and covers himself with dust beforehe touches it, as he would in the presenceof a king. Formerly the penalty for killingone of these snakes was death, but it is nowcommuted for a punishment which, althoughvery severe, is not necessarily fata

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