Karl Gerhard Lindblom (26 August 1887 – 8 June 1969) was an ethnographer from Sweden who worked in East Africa in the 1910s. He was the principal author of materials on the Akamba peoples. Additionally, he worked as the Director of the Museum of Stockholm beginning in 1928 and in 1935 he became a professor at the Stockholm University.
Bibliography Outlines of a Tharaka Grammar, with a list of words and specimens of the language, 1914 The Akamba in British East Africa : an ethnological monograph, 1916, PhD dissertation at Uppsala University, Sweden, 2nd edition, enlarged, 1918–1920, facsimile 1969 Notes on Kamba grammar : with two appendices: Kamba names of persons, places, animals and plants - salutations, 1926 Die Beschneidung bei den Akamba, 1927 Die Schleuder in Afrika und Anderwärts, 1927 Fighting-bracelets and Kindred Weapons in Africa, 1927 The Use of Stilts : especially in Africa and America, 1927 Further notes on the use of stilts, 1928 Kamba folklore, 3 volumes, 1928-1935 String figures in Africa, 1930 The use of oxen as pack riding animals in Africa, 1931 Notes ethnographiques sur le Kavirondo septentrional et la colonie du Kenya, 1932 Spears and staffs with two or more points, in Africa, 1937 Wire-drawing, especially in Africa, 1939 Ethnological and anthropological studies in Sweden during the war, 194
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