Word: cameroons
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Several shipments of material illustrating the daily life of the primitive tribes of the southern, Cameroon region in West Africa, and constituting a collection believed to be without parallel in this country, have been received from West Africa by the Peabody Museum...
Among the objects of interest in the collection assembled by him are several valuable prehistoric stone axes and other implements from southern Cameroon, such as are handed down from generation to generation in the native families to give good luck and to keep the dead from tormenting them. One of these stones is put into the water in which each newly-born child is bathed, to bring it luck...