A Gruesome Relic
A. grucsomo relic was offered for salo at Sotheby’s rooms, London, recently, ft is a largo elephant’s tusk horn carved with two crocodiles, and comes from Calabar River, Southern Nigeria. Tho relic was taken in. 1907 from a Ju-Ju house, near Jamestown, at the mouth of tho Calabar River, whero human sacrifices wero offered. Uere a women had actually just been sacrificed to propitiate tho crocodile, the Ju-Ju of this particular society.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 213, 6 September 1934, Page 3
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75A Gruesome Relic Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 213, 6 September 1934, Page 3
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