List of names and amounts of money collected, along with a prayer [ c mid twentieth century]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22cm x 16.9cm; Dates ca. mid twentieth century; Script: Akauku mfemfe in red and blue ink (ball point pen); Condition: Good; Comments: Written on paper from a school exercise book
Leather cover of book (front and back) with two inserts: note on the book and German languagebookmark with Bamum script characters [early twentieth century]
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Leaves: book covers plus two inserts; Pages:; Measurements: 16cm x 12cm (book covers); Dates Early twentieth century; Script: Akauku Nyiet with earlier variations and printed roman script (German); Condition: Good; Comments:
Drawings and plans for homes of high-ranking Bamum elite in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century, with notes in Akauku Mfemfe.
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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, labeled with Akauku numerals.
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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]
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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 ...
Envelope addressed to Nji Mama from ALI FOSHIGÙE from Buea. The envelope includes an explanation in the Bamum script by Nji Mama [11 November 1949]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 13cm x 10.4cm; Dates 11 November 1949; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Envelope includes Nigeria stamps and a stamp reading “Cameroons Under British Mandate”
Note regarding the work of slaves on “samba mfout” (seven feet of land) on a plantation; on reverse is unrelated government receipt issued to Nji Mama [1939-1940]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 11cm x 8cm; Dates note dated July 1940; receipt dated 8 May 1939; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and roman script; Condition: Poor; Comments: Nji Mama’s name is written on receipt as “Pekeko Mama”
Letter from Mfon Pamom (King Njoya) to Tikampaful in which the King regarding the grasses grown along the nearby rivers
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22cm x 14.3cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes official stamp of King NJOYA and the King’s signature; written on the back of a German receipt
Letter to Tikompaful from Mfon Pamom Mfon (King NJOYA) NJOYA regarding Neh (Queen) NGHARIENGAM’S photograph [18 October 1918]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 13.5cm x 11cm; Dates 18 October 1918; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes official seal of King NJOYA and the King’s signature
Map of the boundaries of the Bamum Kingdom drawn by King Njoya himself, with localities noted in Akauku Mfemfe script
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 11cm x 13cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes official stamp of King NJOYA; appears to have been written on an old receipt