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West African Folk-Tales

W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair

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W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclairs 1917 collection of Anansi spider tales and other Akan folk stories from the Gold Coast, illustrated with Sinclairs original drawings of the trickster cycle.

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