Akauku mfemfe syllabary written out with numerals, along with some names [early twentieth century]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 13.4cm x 10cm; Dates Early twentieth century; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: The order here is not in its modern form and not complete by comparative examples.
Drawings and plans for homes of high-ranking Bamum elite in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century, with notes in Akauku Mfemfe.
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 29.9cm x 25.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Some staining and tearing on the top and right-hand side of the item; Comments: Drawn with colored pencils on brown paper resembling packaging material and tapedalong the back to e...
Drawings and plans for homes of high-ranking Bamum elite in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century, with notes in Akauku Mfemfe.
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 29.9cm x 25.5cm (measurements of probable original form; now severely torn); Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Very Poor; item severely damaged, although architectural plan and notes in Bamumscript still exist; Comments: Drawn with color...
Drawings and plans for homes of high-ranking Bamum elite in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century, labeled with Akauku numerals.
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 29.7cm x 22.4cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe numerals; Condition: Good; Some rips with attempts to repair employing professional archival standards; Comments: Drawn with colored pencils on brown paper resembling packaging material.
Drawings and plans for homes of high-ranking Bamum elite in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century, with notes in Akauku Mfemfe. [c 1940s]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 3; Pages: 3; Measurements: 29.9cm x 25.5cm; Dates ca. 1940s; Script: Akauku mfemfe in colored pencils and ink; Condition: Good (some staining); Comments: Drawn with colored pencilson brown paper resembling packaging material and taped along the back to extend the size of thepaper (not as ...
Famous story of the Rat illustrated and narrated [c 1940s]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: divided into 16 panels (photographed in entirety with 16 close up photographs of theindividual panels in correct order); Measurements: 50cm x 64cm; Dates ca. 1940s; Script: Akauku mfemfe in colored pencils and pen; Condition: Good; Comments: Drawn on strong white paper
Letter of Congratulations from NJI MAMA TO NJOYA IBRAHIMOU
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2 (yet folded into a small triangular note); Measurements: 28cm x 22cm; Dates no date; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; Comments: NJOYA IBRAHIMOU was the younger brother of NJI MAMA, the two shared the same father, NJI PEKEKOU (a brother of King NSANGOU), whose home was al...
Note of Tikompaful and Nji Mùntapmbéme documenting that the news regarding Ibrahim hasbeen reported
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 13cm x 8.4cm; Dates no date; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Fair; Comments: “Tikompaful” is the Shümom name of Nji Mama, which translates as “Flag Bearer” (for the Bamum Kingdom).
Short Story of King NSANGOU including details of the war of Njibam, King NJOYA’s rise to power,and the war of Manga
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Leaves: 1 long leaf; Pages: 2; Measurements: 51cm x 21cm; Dates no date; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Excellent; Comments: The document is so long that we have divided it in photographing it