Medicine for hernia including instructions for payment
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 9cm x 13cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil with some scratched out writing in roman script (transcribing English and Bamum); Condition: Fair; Comments:
Letter to Price Musa, in exile, from Malam Muhammed which announces the arrival of French colonials in the Bamum Kingdom; the document contains, independent of the letter, directions for a medicine for hunting
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 25cm; Dates: Unknown (?1919); Script: Arabic script in black ink and Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: Includes talismanic writing in Arabic script
Medicine to protect against hernia from Malam Abdou
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: on one side is hernia medicine to drink, on the other is medicine administered via scarification
Medicine to retain the love of a woman (so she won’t go to another man) [25 Apr 1905]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 12cm x 10cm; Dates: 1942; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: Written on the back of receipt for sugar from Calabar (Nigeria); Added to the original document are markings in blue ink made at some point prior to the commencement of work by...
Letter from Mako to Malam Abdu, written from Bamenda, warning of police arrest; also, medicine to treat pain of the ribcage [25 Sep 1952]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 21cm; Dates: 25 September 1952; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil and roman script (English language) in blue ink; Condition: Fair (torn); Comments: Further study of this document may reveal that the medicine for pain of the ribcage is connected in some way...
Fetish for hunting along with a list of individuals identified as hunters
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in several different hands and a variety of ink colors (blue and black) and pencil, along with some slight writing in Arabic script; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes a small design in blue ink
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 12cm x 16cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil with some very slight writing in roman script (Bamum language); Condition: Good; Comments: