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x Meek, Charles Kingsley
  1931
A Sudanese kingdom: an ethnographical study of the Jukun-speaking peoples of Nigeria.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.: xxxiv + 548. Numerous figs. 64 pls. 2 maps.
–Lists clans having manatee taboos, and mentions a couple of manatee myths and superstitions (76-78); gives the formula for a virility charm made from a manatee penis (304).

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x  1931Meek, C.K. (TS; Nigeria; folklore; 76-78, 304.)
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x  1931Meek, C.K. (TS; Nigeria; virility charm; 304.)
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x  1931Meek, C.K. (TS; Mande, Nigeria; 77.)