Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 18.2cm x 5.4cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: Written on the back of advertising for Ermen & Roby’s Crown Sewings of Great Britain.
Explanation of medicine for sexually transmitted diseases
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 12.3cm x 8.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: Written on the back of an exercise book
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
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...
Administration of medicine known as “Fu Gwou”, scarification on the head and hand to make a man powerful for head butting and punching
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15cm x 18cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in black Hausa ink and pencil; Arabic script in pencil; Condition: Good; added to the original document are markings in blue ink made at some point prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Scripts and Arch...
Letter from John Mbufung to mother, along with notes on how to be strong in fights communicated by Nji Mantum; also, some diseases and their cures [03 Mar 1943]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15cm x 16cm; Dates: 3 March 1943; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil and roman script (English language) in black ink; Condition: Good; Comments: Letter appears to be sent from either Nigeria or British Cameroons and it is possible that the letter writer was servin...
History of the arrival of the Fulbe with later notes added on medicine for hernia administered through drinking and scarification [c 1945]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 17cm x 22cm; Dates: Several dates, ranging from ca. 1902 through ca. 1945; Script: Nyi Nyi Fafu men script variant and Mbima variant in native black ink with later characters (in section dealing with hernia) added on reverse in Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition...