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Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2001. Book. As New. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in forest green cloth and lettered in gold on printed black background on spine, no dust-jacket as issued. Reprints of two papers by George W. Harley, originally published by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology in 1941 and 1950 respectively. v, 54 [and] xiv, 60 pages. Illustrated with several drawings and numerous black and white photographs of masks. Limited facsimile reprint of 200 copies, albeit this copy is not numbered. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh unmarked and like new copy. As new..

Mansfield Centre:: Martino Publishing,. Near Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 1578982669 . A limited facsimile reprint edition. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. .

These two seminal studies by Dr. George Way Harley are the basis of our present day knowledge of the Poro men's secret society of West Africa and of masks and masking traditions in Liberia. Harley, a physician, traveled to Liberia from Durham, N.C., in 1926, cutting his way through the bush when there were no roads. He established a clinic at Ganta in Mano country near the Guinea border, and ministered to the needs of the people in the region for over three decades. Because of the trust placed in him by Poro initiates, and through his anthropological training at Harvard, he slowly accumulated an immense knowledge and deep insight into the otherwise impenetrable secrets of the Poro.
Nearly impossible to find in their original, these classic works are presented together in this facsimile reprint. The two papers have been bound together in a handsome cloth cover in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies.

NOTES ON THE PORO IN LIBERIA: v, 40 pages of text containing 1 page of drawings of masks and… Read More

NOTES ON THE PORO IN LIBERIA and MASKS AS AGENTS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN NORTHEAST LIBERIA.
by George W. Harley
(Hardcover)
Ethnos Publications, 2001

These two seminal studies by Dr. George Way Harley are the basis of our present day knowledge of the Poro men's secret society of West Africa and of masks and masking traditions in Liberia. Harley, a physician, traveled to Liberia from Durham, N.C., in 1926, cutting his way through the bush when there were no roads. He established a clinic at Ganta in Mano country near the Guinea border, and ministered to the needs of the people in the region for over three decades. Because of the trust placed in him by Poro secret society initiates, and through his anthropological training at Harvard, he slowly accumulated an immense knowledge and deep insight into the otherwise impenetrable secrets of the Poro.

Nearly impossible to find in their original, these classic works are presented together in this facsimile reprint. The two papers have been bound together… Read More

Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1941. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 10.5 x 8 inches, wraps, near fine sharp copy, 39 pp text and 14 b/w plates, mainly of masks.