Letter from King NJOYA to TIKOMPAFUL regarding a flower that King Njoya is sending to Nji Mama that he suggests Nji Mama plant in his compound in Njintüt next to the one he sent earlier [22 Mar 1919]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20.5cm x 16.3cm; Dates 22 March 1919; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes King Njoya’s official stamp and the King’s signature
Note from King NJOYA to TIKOMPAFUL requesting that he tell the MfonMayap to come with his notables and children to work the farms at Mambue and Fugham
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 14.5cm x 9cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original written in Akauku Nyiet script in red ink with Nji Mama’s notes added later in Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: The “MfonMayap” is the former king of the subjugated peoples who became a vassal of K...
Letter from King NJOYA, written from Mambue, to Nji MAMA regarding the arrest of Nji NDAM’s son who murdered a man at the farm of Néh Njapdunke in Mambue
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22.3cm x 17.2cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original written in Akauku Nyiet script in black ink with Nji Mama’s notes added later in Akauku Mfemfe script in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: Njapdunke is the Queen Mother
Letter to Nji MAMA from MAMA MBOUOMAGA Manshüt regarding a conversation he had with the king about a young slave woman from Mambue being sold
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20.2cm x 17.2cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original in Akauku Nyiet script in blue ink with Nji Mama’s notes added later in Akauku Mfemfe script in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments:
Records on various subjects: 1. year of death of Amina, 28 July 1925; 2. the day the whitemen began arresting Bamum people because of Mose, 1925 (the exact date is written here, but is difficult to
Envelope addressed to Nji MAMA from GARIBA in Douala, sent at the time when he was released from prison; Nji Mama includes notes in Bamum script [10 Apr 1940]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 14.5cm x 11.2cm; Dates 10 April 1940; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes postage stamp
Letter to Nji MAMA from ADIJA communicating to him the news that traders in Bamumland should get their papers; Nji Mama adds his notes
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 19cm x 13cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Original letter in Akauku Mfemfe script in pencil with Nji Mama’s notes in purple ink; Condition: Fair (paper possibly ripped along edges in original form); Comments:
Note on evening prayers and the number of invocations to be made, and a beautifully drawn map of the palace in pencil with varies places identified in Bamum script; on reverse is another diagram with identifications in Bamum sc
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22cm x 17cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in blue ink with sketch identifications in Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments:
Letter to Nji MAMA from NJOYA Ibrahimu concerning coffee as well as a report on Nji Mama’s son, Ndam [12 Oct 1952]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22cm x 17.3cm; Dates 12 October 1952; Script: Original letter in Akauku Mfemfe in ink with Nji Mama’s notes in Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: