Letter to Nji MAMA from Nji NOUHOU, requesting that Nji Mama reply to the letter of ANTHONY; written on the back of a receipt from a library in Algeria
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21cm x 23cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil with receipt in Arabic script and roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Letter from Nouhou to Anthony at Kougham with compliments to Nji MAMA. This is a response of Nouhou to Anthony on behalf of Nji Mama, and concerns a request for a gun to which Nji Mama communicat
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21cm x 23cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe, Arabic script, and roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Letter from King NJOYA to TIKOMPAFUL regarding a flower that King Njoya is sending to Nji Mama that he suggests Nji Mama plant in his compound in Njintüt next to the one he sent earlier [22 Mar 1919]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20.5cm x 16.3cm; Dates 22 March 1919; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes King Njoya’s official stamp and the King’s signature
Prayer to be made by Tijani Muslims concerning Blessing the Messenger
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16.7cm x 13cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe script in purple ink and pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: While the script is entirely Akauku Mfemfe, it transcribes both Arabic language and the Bamum language; the Bamum are Tijani Muslims
Medicinal remedy and instructions to heal smallpox, eye infections, and back pain via Arabic recitation and explanations in Bamum script
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 12cm x 9cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Arabic script in black ink and Akauku Mfemfe script in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments:
Document with Four Cures: 1. instruction for healing conjunctivitis (of the eye); 2. remedy against bad odors; 3. remedy against skin infection; 4. explanation of burning excrement when toilet is filled
Various issues, including: 1. remedy against vaginal infection; 2. remedy against poison; 3. remedy against infertility; 4. recommendation on how to receive these remedies – who must be paid and how much, and 5. a far [20 May 1938]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 4 (folded, with one page blank); Measurements: 13.3cm x 10.3cm; Dates 20 May 1938 (only the entry for the land contract has a date, which includes also the place, Koupare, and the time, 2:00 pm); Script: Akauku Mfemfe in black ink and pencil; Condition: Good; Comments:
King NJOYA’s Historical Account of the Nji from Mambue written by King Njoya at Mambue
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22.2cm x 17.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original written in Akauku Nyiet script with Nji Mama’s notes added later in Akauku Mfemfe script; Condition: Good; Comments: Mambue is alleged to be the place of King Njoya’s first farm
Letter from King NJOYA at Mambue to Nji MAMA regarding some matters in dispute with an individual called MÉNGNA
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22.2cm x 17.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original written in Akauku Nyiet in black ink with Nji Mama’s notes in Akauku Mfemfe in pencil added later; Condition: Good; Comments: