THE FOLK MUSEUM
AFRICAN VILLAGE; WITCH’S CABIN. The Abbey Folk Park at Barnet is rapidly becoming one of the most attractive museums near London. An African village, complete with a watchtower, a bazaar stocked with native goods, and a fetish hut, has been opened to celebrate the King’s jubilee.
Visitors will now be able to compare the Folk Park’s famous prehistoric village in which our ancestors dwelt, with a village in which there dwell to-day men, women and children in the same stage of civilisation as we were thousands of years ago.
Another building which has just been opened is a timbered cottage of the 16th century with a central hearth and a louvre above it in place of a chimney. This cottage has been furnished as a witch’s cabin in Tudor times. In marked contrast to this the Oratory of the Angels, its windows bright with glass from the 13th and 16th centuries, has been opened.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)
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