Springville Herald | 1950-03-23 | Page 14 | Some "Fon" |

Type	issue
Date	1950-03-23
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6q56r95
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q56r95

Article Title	Some "Fon"
Type	article
Date	1950-03-23
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Page	14
OCR Text	Show . . k. ' - - v y SOME "FON" . . . West Africa'i fon of the Bikom tribe lives with 110 wives. A special U.N. mission mis-sion reports that custom of plural marriage is a means of sustenance sus-tenance to the women and that' , none are held by duress. Chiefs marry all first-born daughters and ' female twins of certain families within their tribes.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q56r95/15243208