Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 13.4cm x 10cm; Dates Early twentieth century; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Good; Comments: Further research on this document is necessary to understand its meaning. Note thatoil spilled on this collection in the 1980s while in NFONKAO Ousmanou’s hands and th...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15.6m x 10.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: “Muendessan” is an invented Shümom name for “Chief of Guns” and was reserved for the “Tupanka” who was the palace military general.
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21cm x 16.7cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Roman script (Bamum language) and slight writing in Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Future research should probe into this document having served, perhaps in part, for alarger Bamum script treatise known as the “Nw...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 13.2cm x 12.3cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil and Arabic script in pen; Condition: Good; Comments: Written on blue paper from the cover of a drawing booklet with a depiction of a dogwearing a hat and holding a sword
Leaves: 1 very large sheet (2 images of item); Pages:; Measurements: 65.1cm x 43.2cm; Dates 1944-1946; Script: Roman script printed (French language); Condition: Good; Comments: Similar to APRB 1393
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 18.5cm x 5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic; Condition: Good; Comments: On some documents, as with this one, the symbols “V?V” are observed and and this means “Allah” or “God”; this document is written on the packaging for some English thread “...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 8.7cm x 7cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script; Condition: Poor; Comments: As is often the case, the Arabic numerals represented here at the “Eastern” Arabic numerals, as in the Qur'an, as opposed to the “Western” Arabic numerals as employed...
Medicine for hunting and wrestling, along with notes on scarification for power as taken from the Fulbe people
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 26cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: This document probably comes from Nji Musa’s collection as it contains the “Bismillah” in Akauku Mfemfe which is so common in his papers. The proposed medicine will make the...