Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone Specimens of Languages from Sierra Leone

Abstract

MR. NORTHCOTE THOMAS, employed for a number of years as Government Ethnologist in Southern Nigeria, was transferred recently to the Sierra Leone colony and protectorate to serve there in a like capacity. The first results of his work have now been published by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and will not disappoint those whose expectations have been already raised over the remarkable research work conducted by Mr. Thomas amongst the tribes of Southern Nigeria—in which direction, be it observed, he revealed much that was new and interesting regarding the Semi-Bantu languages of the Upper Cross River basin. Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone. By Northcote W. Thomas. Part i., Law and Custom of the Timne and other Tribes. Pp. 196. Part ii., Timne-English Dictionary. Pp. viii + 139. Part iii., Timne Grammar and Stories. Pp. xxx + 86. Specimens of Languages from Sierra Leone. By Northcote W. Thomas. Pp. 62. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1916.)