Notes concerning the brave people involved in constructing the palace [1918 and 1924]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 2; Pages: 2; Measurements: 19cm x 26cm; Dates: 1918 and 1924 (various entries); Script: Akauku Mfemfe in black and purple ink; Condition: Fair (weathering); added to the original document are markings made by Emmanual Ndayou Njoya ca. 1979 prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Sc...
Copies of communications to the foreign commander in 1918 [1918 and 1924]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 19cm x 26cm; Dates: 1918 and 1925 (various entries); Script: Akauku Mfemfe in black ink and pencil; Condition: Fair (weathering); added to the original document are markings made by Emmanual Ndayou Njoya in 1979 prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Scr...
Report on various trading activities in the year 1918 [01 Apr 1905]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 19cm x 26cm; Dates: 1918; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in black ink; Condition: Fair (weathering); added to the original document are markings made by Emmanuel Ndayou Njoya ca. 1979 prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project; Comments:
Copy of letter from Njimambian and Njimbarra, written from Fontain [16 Jan 1939]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 19cm x 26cm; Dates: 16 January 1939; Script: Roman script (French language); Condition: Poor (severely torn and slight water damage); Comments: Written on the back of a page of palace judgments recorded by scribe Wajankibenziar Manshüt Mekoumié (1918); further r...
Timeline of colonial administrators in the Bamum kingdom from 1902-1960 [c 1960]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 75cm x 66cm; Dates: ca. 1960; Script: Roman script (French language) in black ink; Condition: Poor (torn); Comments: Includes elaborate designs of Bamum palace symbols and portraits of Bamum kings drawn with colored pencils
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 13cm x 15.5cm; Dates: 9 September 1925; Script: Roman script (French and Bamum language) and Akauku Mfemfe purple pencil; Condition: Fair (torn); Comments: Includes the official palace stamp and signature of King Njoya