Serpent worship in Africa
By: by Wilfrid D. Hambly, Assistant Curator of African Ethnology. 8 plates in photogravure and 1 map. Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology, editor.
Contributors: Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934. editor
Series: Fieldiana -- v. 21, no. 1; Publication, Field Museum of Natural History -- 289. -- Anthropological series -- Vol. XXI, No. 1; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- 289; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- v. 21, no. 1
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Chicago
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Serpent worship
Table of contents: title: I. Python worship; title: II. The serpent and fecundity, transmigration of souls, totemism; title: III. The rainbow snake; title: IV. Immunity and snake-medicines; title: V. Distribution of beliefs and probable lines of migration; title: VI. The question of an external origin of African serpent beliefs; title: VII. Zoological evidence as an explanation of origins; title: VIII. Summary and conclusions.