ABSTRACT
The International African Institute has, since 1945, been engaged on the preparation and publication of an Ethnographic Survey of Africa, the purpose of which is to present in a brief and readily comprehensible form a summary of available information concerning the different peoples of Africa with respect to location, natural environment, economy and crafts, social structure, political organization, religious beliefs and cults. Wh^e available published material has provided the basis for the Survey, a mass anpublished documents, reports and records in Government files and in the archives of missionary societies, as well as field notes and special communications by anthropologists and others, have been generously made available, and these have been supplemented by personal correspondence and consultation. The Survey is being published in a number of separate volumes, each of which is concerned with one people or a group of related peoples, and contains a comprehensive bibliography and specially drawn map.
