Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Customs and traditions / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP078/1
Title:: Alexis Bekyane Tengan's Collection of Ritual Narration Material of the Dagara Bagr Secret Society
Scope & Content:: The material in this Collection comprises audio recordings, audio visual recordings and images documenting the structured narratives recited within the Bagr ritual context between May 1994-Nov 2002. The ritual narratives solidified over time to consist of two categories of compositions that were ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dagara, Northern and Dagara, Northern"
Date Range:: 1994-2002
Extent:: 3 series of records consisting of 12 files comprising approximately 6:02:24 hours of audio recordings in wav, mp3, wma and cda formats; 22:43 minutes of audio visual material in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats; and 16 TIFF images.

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP078/1/1
Title:: Black Bagr Narration
Scope & Content:: This series contains audio recordings, audio visual recordings and digital images of material dating from Nov 1994 relating to the narration and practice of the black bagr. The black bagr for each house or kin group is always one long narrative audition to be spoken continuously by one voice e...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dagara, Northern and Dagara, Northern"
Date Range:: 1994
Extent:: 3 files comprising approximately 2:52:35 hours of audio recordings in wav, mp3, wma and cda formats; 12:41 minutes of audio visual material in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats; and 4 Tiff images.

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP078/1/3
Title:: Bagr Exoteric Practices
Scope & Content:: The original material was made from May 1994 to November 2002.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dagara, Northern and Not applicable
Date Range:: 1994
Extent:: 5 files comprising approximately 29:52 minutes of audio recording in .mav, .mp3, .wma and .cda formats, 10:02 minutes of audio visual recording in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats, and 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP352/8
Title:: Kutubchanah Sheikh Amdul Karim Amrullah Collection
Scope & Content:: EAP352/8/1: Treatise on Minangkabau customs and laws EAP352/8/2: السوانح الجازمة في التعاريف اللازمة al-Sawāniḥ al-jāzimah fī-l-taʻārīf al-lāzimah EAP352/8/3: Mixed texts EAP352/8/4: Mukhtaṣar maṭlaʻ al-sa'id EAP352/8/5: Regulations EAP352/8/6: Correspondence EAP352/8/7: Correspondence EAP352/8/...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Dutch, Malay, and Minangkabau
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 452 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP352/8/1
Title:: Treatise on Minangkabau customs and laws
Scope & Content:: Part of a treatise on Minangkabau customs, listed from number 77 to 131. Pages numbered 258-460 (some folios out of order towards end). Physical characteristics: Black ink on paper. Water-damaged towards end of volume.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Malay and Minangkabau
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 173 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP722/3
Title:: Lower Axim Traditional Council Archive
Scope & Content:: The collection includes a heterogeneous corpus of records: documents regarding land rights and boundaries, lists of chiefs and acts, maps, court proceedings and judgements in civil, land and criminal remedies, as well as the financial administration of the Council. The documents span from the en...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Nzima
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:: 2091 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP722/3/1
Title:: Certificates of Authentication
Scope & Content:: The series includes Certificates of Authentication issued by PRAAD, with the annexed reproductions of documents. In some cases folders can include a second copy of the Certificate and annexed reproductions. Certificates are often used as exhibits in legal cases. Extent and format of original ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Nzima
Date Range:: 1860-2006
Extent:: 1156 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP722/3/1/12
Title:: National Archives of Ghana Certificate of Authentication – ADM 11/1106. Correspondence between District Commissioner, Axim and Colonial Secretary, on presents made to the Native Chiefs during the celebration of the Kuntum custom
Scope & Content:: Certificate of Authentication, reproduction of handwritten documents. Reproductions have the stamp "The National Archive of Ghana." on the back. Ghana Certificate and reproductions are bound by the original binding with sealing wax. The dossier is indicated as “Exhibit 7” by a small ticket glued...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Nzima
Date Range:: 24 Nov 1893-7 Jul 1975
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP722/4
Title:: Nsein Traditional Council Archive
Scope & Content:: The collection consists of 393 files and volumes of varying sizes arranged in five series. Newsletters, magazines, personal diaries and periodicals issued by the Ghana Government were gathered in Series 6, consisting in 5 archival boxes (see NTC list for details). Most of the materials are in ba...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Nzima
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:: 10094 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP722/4/1
Title:: Traditional Affairs
Scope & Content:: 69 files. It uses Latin script with Nzima phonetic characters. Access to some files in this collection is restricted. Consequently, the digital images for some files are not available on the EAP website. Please contact the EAP team to request access to those. This collection contains the foll...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Nzima
Date Range:: 1860-2020
Extent:: 5997 TIFF images

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