Explanation and conversion table of Bamum measurements in traditional form (number of large footsteps, for example) and those used by whitemen
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 10cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and a few words in roman script (for Bamum language); Condition: Poor; Comments:
Record of Tontine with names of members with unidentified writing in Arabic
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20cm x 16cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script; Condition: Poor; page torn; Comments: A “tontine” or “njangui” is a community savings organization
Note that Sultan El-Hadj Seidou has given some advice regarding Mama and Yacouba concerning a land problem; on reverse, written at an earlier time, is a note indicating that Sultan Seidou has said that seven p
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16.2 x 10.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; page torn; Comments: In the note regarding the seven people who Sultan Seidou has said should not come to Yaoundé, it appears that King Njoya is still living at this point (he would die in 1933).
Note on the Arrival of the British in the Bamum Kingdom, the creation of King Njoya’s store in Nkongsamba, and a note indicating that women should not pay taxes except for the daughter of PAYUEGHUE, called Pasma, at Bape [08 Apr 1905]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15.5cm x 10.2cm; Dates 1925 (according to the document, exactly twenty-two years after the death of Njapdunke, who died in 1913); Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; page torn; Comments:
Letter from OUMAROU in Bamenda to Pafumjati, with a list of various individuals
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 9.8cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; page torn; Comments: It appears that half of this letter is missing
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20cm x 19cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: Written on some old packaging material