Project correspondence

General

Tsala, Abbe Theodore, 1968-1971

Zoa, Jean, Archbishop of Yaounde, Cameroun, 1967

Drafts (incomplete) of Beti Society in the Nineteenth Century, by Frederick Quinn

Notes

General

Notecards

Notebooks

Bibliographies

Resumes

Outlines, chronological and topical

Miscellaneous

List (partial) of documents in 1916-1950 folders

1822

1827-1828

1829-1830

1832-1833

1885

1889-1890

1892(?)

1894-1900

1901

1903-1908

1909-1919

1902-1921(?)

1922-1923

1924-1933

1933: Chef de Region Cournaire. Note sur les coutumes des populations de la region du Nyong et Sanaga. Typewritten transcript.

1934-1945

1946-1951

1952-1961

Undated

General

Dugast. Documents recueillis en pays Mangisa

Six Months Ago...Sheikh al-Islam. Photocopy of untitled manuscript in North African Arabic with English translation attached.

Talinde. Quelques fetiches des Ewondo (Fetishes of the Ewondo), undated. Photoprint of typescript.

Atangana, Charles. Discussion of the Evolution of the Role of Chief in the Yaounde Region of the Cameroun, 1929. Typewritten transcript with photocopy and carbon copies in French with an introductory note entitled Charles Atangana and the Ewondo Chiefs, A Document by Frederick Quinn, 1968.

Atangana Amengue, Henri.

Definitions of Forms of Sorcery among the Beti, 1968. Holograph and typescript in French.

Le tam-tam ou `Nkoul' (The Tom-Tom), 1968. Holograph and typescript with carbon copy in French.

Atangana, Abbe Tobie. Nti Angono Woo (Zee) (The Leopard Named Zee), ca. 193?. Typewritten transcript in Ewondo with French translation by Abbe Theodore Tsala, 1968.

Benediction nuptiale de la jeune fille par ses parents (Nuptial Blessing of a Young Girl by her Parents), undated. Typescript in Ewondo and French.

Betene (also, Beteyene and Beteyne), Abbe Pierre.

Le Chant dans la vie traditionnelle du Beti (Song in the Traditional Life of the Beti), ca. 1967-1968. Typescript in French.

D'une generation a une autre: etude des changements survenues dans notre societe depuis 25 ans (From One Generation to the Next: A Study of the Changes Occuring in Our Society Over the Past Twenty-Five Years), 1968. Typescript in French.

Enquete sur les Beti du Sud-Cameroun (An Investigation of Beti Society in the southern Cameroun), 1967. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Bikoa, Materne and Pierre Betene. La Musique Traditionnelle en pays Beti (Traditional Music in the Land of the Beti), 1967. Typescript with carbon copy and photocopy in French and Ewondo with an introductory note by Frederick Quinn, undated.

Bikoa, Materne. An Investigation of the Evolution of Beti Society, 1967. Typescript in French.

Biographie de Charles Atangana Ntsama, Chef superieur des Ewondo (Biography of Charles Atangana Ntsama, Chief Superior of the Ewondo), ca. 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French.

Chant (Les Ewondo pleurent Atangana Ntsama) (Chant: The Ewondo Weep for Atangana Ntsama), undated. Carbon copy of typescript in Ewondo and French.

Chilver, E. M. and P. M. Kaberry. Draft notes on The Kingdom of Kom (West Cameroun) in the 19th Century. 1964. Photocopy of typescript.

Les croyances des Beti a travers la semantique et les maximes (Religious Beliefs of the Beti as revealed in their Semantics and Maxims), undated. Carbon copy of typescript in French and Ewondo.

Ebogo, Abbe Apollinaire

Les Beti (The Beti), 1967. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Les Beti, supplement aux recherches sociologiques sur les `Beti de Nnanga' (The Beti: Supplement to the Sociological Research on the Beti of Nnanga), 1968. Typescript in French with a letter, list of questions, and a list of project expenses attached.

Remarques sur les `Notes sur les coutumes des populations de la region du Nyong et Sanaga,' par Cournaire, decembre, 1933 (Remarks on the `Notes on the Customs of the People of the Nyong and Sanaga Region,' by Cournaire, December 1933). Typescript in French.

Embolo, Abbe Laurent. Rapport a l'enquete sur les Betis (Report on the Inquiry about the Beti), 1967. Typescript in French.

Essomba, Abbe Frederick. Religion traditionnelle (Traditional Religion), 1968. Mimeograph in French.

Le fetichisme et la guerison en pays Bassa (Fetichism and Herbal Medicine in the Land of the Bassa), undated. Typescript in French.

Foudda, Max Abe. Histoire des Betis (Ewondo) (History of the Ewondo Beti), 1967. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Genealogie de la tribu Mbid' Ambani (Genealogy of Mbid' Ambani Tribe), 1968. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Genealogie generale de la tribu D'Enoa (Genealogy of the D'Enoa Tribe), undated. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Genealogy of the Nda-Bod Mvog Amougui Mbezele, or Mvog Elomo, undated. Typescript in French.

Laburthe-Tobra, Philippe. Essai de synthese sur l'histoire des populations dites `Beti' de la region de Minlaba (sud du Nyong) (Essay on the History of the Beti of the Minlaba Region [South of the Nyong]), 1973. Mimeograph of a communication in French.

Le mariage des Beti et ses differentes sortes (The Variety of Marriages among the Beti), undated. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Mballa Foe, Martin. Genealogie generale de la tribu Mvog Amougou (Genealogy of the Mvog Amougu Tribe), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French; notes of an interview with Owono Ndi Cyprien attached.

Mvondo, Marcel, II

Une image de l'Afrique precoloniale (A Description of Pre-Colonial Africa), 1968. Carbon copy of typescript in French.

De la poesie camerounaise (Camerounian Poetry), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Le `nken' (The Nken Bell), undated. Carbon copy of typescript in French and Ewondo.

Onana, Ambroise Alfred Marzavan

Genealogie des Beti (Genealogy of the Beti), 1967. Photoprint of holograph in Ewondo; holograph and carbon copy of typescript French translation by Onana.

Genealogie generale de la tribu Mvog-Amugu (Genealogy of the Mvog-Amugu Tribe), 1967-1968. Typescript with carbon copy in Ewondo; holograph and typescript with carbon copy French translation by Onana.

Minkana/Paraboles (Proverbs), 1967-1968? Typescript with carbon copy in Ewondo and French, and partial holograph in Ewondo and French.

Les rites fetichistes anciens des Ewondo (Fetish Rites of the Ewondo), 1967-1968?. Photoprint of holograph in Ewondo; holograph and typescript with carbon copy French translations by Onana.

Open Letter to Pope John XXIII from the Diocesan Clergy of Yaounde, Cameroun, October 6, 1960. Carbon copy of typescript.

Principaux instruments de musiques des Beti (Principal Musical Instruments of the Beti), undated. Typescript in French.

La procedure du mariage au sein de certaines familles cotieres du Cameroun - La dot (The Marriage Customs of Certain Coastal Families of the Cameroun - the Dowry), undated. Typescript in French.

Situation sociale de la femme chez les Beti (The Social Status of Women among the Beti), undated. Carbon copy of typescript (incomplete) in French and Ewondo.

The, M. S. de. Influences des femmes sur l'evolution des structures sociales chez les Beti du Sud-Cameroun (The Influence of Women on the Evolution of the Social Structure of the Beti of the Southern Cameroun), March, 1965. Typewritten transcript with carbon copy of a thesis presented to the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, University of Paris.

Tjamag, Louis. Le foot-ball au Cameroun (Soccer in the Cameroun), 1968. Typescript in French.

Tsala, Abbe Theodore

Benedictions et maledictions (Benedictions and Maledictions), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Description of Beti Society, 1968. Untitled typescript with carbon copy beginning Geographie et Populations (Geography and People) in French and Ewondo.

Charles Atangana Ntsama. Carbon copy of typescript in French.

Curriculum vitae de l'abbe Theodore Tsala Etono (Biography of Abbe Theodore Tsala Etono), 1968. Typescript in French.

Le gouvernement des Beti (The Government of the Beti), 1968. Typescript in French.

Interdits (Interdictions), 1968. Typescript in French and Ewondo.

Monseigneur Francois Xavier Vogt, 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French.

La mort de Zibi Ngomo et les sacrifices humains (The Death of Zibi Ngomo and Human Sacrifices), 1968. Typescript in French.

Les noms des jours (The Names of Days), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Organization Judiciaire (Organization of the Judiciary), undated. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Les parents et les enfants: Bebonde ai bon (Parents and Children), 1968. Typescript with carbon copies in French and Ewondo.

Principales valeurs sociales des Beti (Principal Social Values of the Beti), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French.

Regles de vie sacerdotale (Rules of Priestly Life), 1968. Typescript with carbon copies in French.

Des vedettes de l'evangelisation du Cameroun (Prominent Figures in the Evangelizing of the Cameroun), 1968. Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.

Vieter, P. Erinnerungen aus Kamerun, 1890-1903 (Recollections of the Cameroun), ca. 1903. Photocopy of typewritten transcript in German.

Vincent, Jeanne-Francoise and Abbe Theodore Tsala. Mort, revenants et sorciers d'apres les proverbes des Beti du Sud-Cameroun (Death, Ghosts, and Witches, based on Proverbs of the Beti of the Southern Cameroun), 1968. Photocopy of typescript in French.

Wars among Beti Tribes, ca. 1968. Untitled typescript with carbon copy in French.

Miscellaneous. Partial manuscripts in French and Ewondo.

Atangana, Francois. Near Mbalmayo, May 2, 1967

Atangana Amengue, Henri. Mfou, April 5, 18, May 26, 1968

Ateba, Albert and Philibert. April 19, 1968

Betayene, Jean Faustin. Yaounde, 1968? Conversation Concerning Colonial occupation and the Independence Movement in Cameroun History

Binzi, Benoit. Near Yaounde, May 14, 26, 1968

Bissome Dza, Paul (Bisso Mezda, Gotefried). March 18 & 26, 1968

Brunchweg, Henri. June 1, 1968. Notes on Conversation

Essomba, Abbe Frederick. Mbalmayo, March 14, 1968

Fonda, Max Abe. Mkolbewa, December 23, 1967; and January 6, 1968

Mballa Foe, Martin and Owona Nde Cyprian. Mbalmayo, March 14-15, 1968

Mbida, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Marie. July 28, 1968

Mbida, Mbelle. February 15, 1968

Mebe, Pierre. April?, May 10, June 30, July 7, 12, 14, 20, 22, Aug. 6, Nov. 1, 8, 16, and Dec. 21, 1967; Feb. 8, 22, 1968

Messie Alogo. Mfou, April 4, 12, 1968

Okah Mbana Fabian, Fouda Ngono Jean, Ayissi Nsimi Laurant, Ahanda Ayissi Etienne, and Alima Etoundi Charles. Ngondemezap, March 18, 1968

Onana Mbida, Hubert. Ngomedzap, March 19, August 5-7, 1968

Ondoua Awoumou, Laurent. Near Mbalmayo, March 14, 31, 1968

Owono, Joseph. July 8, 1968

Tsala, Abbe Theodore. Mvolye, February 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, March?, 2, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 7, 22, 24, May 1, 5, 14, 30, June 6, July 6, 10, 14, August 1, 1968

Ze, Daniel, April 13, 1968

Ze, Marie-Jean. April 4, 1968

Zoa, Archbishop Jean. Yaounde, November 30, 1967

Alexandre, Pierre. Proto-histoire du groupe beti-bulu-fang: essai de synthese provisoire (Proto-History of the Beti-Bulu-Fang Group: An Essay), 1962-1963. Photocopy.

Atangana, Charles.

Aken So (le rite So) chez les Yaoundes-Banes (The `So' Rite among the Yaoundes-Banes),?, Anthropos, 1942-1945. Typewritten transcript in French and Ewondo.

Lebenslauf Karl Atangana/Curriculum Vitae de Charles Atangana (Life of Charles Atangana), selection from Heepe (ed.), Yaounde-Text, 1919. Photocopy in German; typescript transcript in French.

Avec Charles Atangana: Une page d'histoire camerounaise (With Charles Atangana: A Page from Camerounian History), L'Effort Camerounais, May 10, 1958. Photocopy.

Binet, Jacques.

Budgets familiaux des planteurs de cacao au Cameroun (Family Budgets of Cacao Planters in the Cameroun), in L'Homme d'outre-mer (The Man Over-Seas) series of the Conseil superieur de la Recherche sociologique outre-mer (Council on Over Seas Sociological Research), 1956. Photocopy.

Groupes socio-professionnels au Cameroun (Socio-Professional Groups in the Cameroun), Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, XXIV (1958). Photocopy.

Bot Ba Njock, Henri Marcel. Preeminences sociales et systeme politico-religieux dans la societe traditionnelle Bulu et Fang (Social Preeminence and the Political-Religious System in the Traditional Society of the Bulu and Fang), Journal de la Societe des Africanistes, 1961. Offprint.

Buell, Raymond Leslie. The Native Problem in Africa, 1928. Photocopy of selected pages.

Chilver, E. M. Nineteenth Century Trade in the Bamenda Grass-fields, Southern Camerouns, Afrika und Ubersee, XLV (1961). Photocopy.

Chilver, E. M. and P. M. Kaberry.

From Tribute to Tax in a Tikar Chiefdom, Africa, XXX (1960). Photoprint.

Traditional Government in Bafut, West Cameroun, The Nigerian Field, XXVIII (undated). Photocopy.

Dark, Philip. Notes on the Eton of the Southern French Cameroons, Man, LV (1955). Photocopy.

Dominik, Hans.

Vom Atantik zum Tschadsee: Kriegs-und Forschungs-fahrten in Kamerun (From the Atlantic to Lake Chad: Voyages of War and Discovery in Cameroun), 1908. Photoprint of selected pages with French translation.

Kamerun: sechs Kriegs-und Friendensjahre in den deutschen Tropen (Cameroun: Six Years of War and Peace in the German Tropics), 1901. Photoprint of selected pages with English translation.

Dankelmann (ed.), Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten (Information from Explorers and Scholars in the German Protectorates), 1889-1890. Photocopy of selected pages.

Dussercle, Roger. Du Kilima-Ndjaro au Cameroun: Monseigneur F.-X. Vogt (1870-1943) (From Kilimanjaro to the Cameroun: Monseigneur F.-X. Vogt, 1870-1943), 1950. Photoprint of selected pages.

Franqueville, A. Naissance et analyse d'un paysage urbain: Yaounde (Birth and Analysis of an Urban Landscape: Yaounde), 1967. Photocopy of typescript.

Haberer. D. Jaunde (The Ewondo), Kamerun, undated. Photoprint of selected pages.

Heepe, M. (ed.). Jaunde-Texte von Karl Atangana und Paul Messi (Ewondo Texts of Charles Atangana and Paul Messi) in Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts (Transactions of the Hamburg Colonial Institute), 1919. Photoprint in German and Ewondo; manuscript and typescript with carbon copies of French translation.

Institute Geographique National (Yaounde) Service Geographique (Brazzaville). Map of Yaounde, Republique du Cameroun, 1960.

Kaberry, Phyllis M.

Retainers and Royal Households in the Cameroons Grassfields, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 10 (196-). Photocopy.

Traditional Politics in Nsaw, Africa, XXIX (1959). Photocopy.

Kaberry, P. M. and E. M. Chilver. An Outline of the Traditional Political System of Bali-Nyonga, Southern Cameroons, Africa, XXXI (1961). Photocopy.

Morgan, C. Durch Kamerun von Sud nach Nord. Reisen und Forschungen im Hinterlande 1889 bis 1891 (Across the Cameroun from South to North. Travels and Studies in the Interior from 1889 to 1891) 1893. Photoprint of selected pages; typescript French translation.

Nekes, Hermann.

Jaunde und seine Bewohner (Sudkamerun) (Yaounde and Its Inhabitants [Southern Cameroun]), Koloniale Rundschau, 8 (1912). Photoprint with English translation.

Totemistische manistische Anschauungen der Jaunde in ihren Kultfeiern und Geheimbunden (Some Views about Death-Worship and Totemic Symbols in Ewondo Cult Rites and Secret Societies), Koloniale Rundschau, 9 (1913). Photoprint with French and English resumes.

Vier Jahre im Kameruner Hinterland (Four Years in the Cameroun Hinterland), 1912. Photoprint.

Passarge, S. Die Geschichte der Erforschung und Eroberung Kameruns (History of the Exploration and Conquest of the Cameroun), Beitschrift fur Kolonialpolitik, Kolonialrecht und Kolonialwirtschaft (Note on Colonial Policy, Colonial Law, and Colonial Economy) edited by the Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society), 1908. Photoprint with French translation.

Pogge von Strandmann, H. The German Role in Africa and German Imperialism: A Review Article, African Affairs, 69 (1970). Photocopy.

Die politische Organisation der Eingeborenen und ihre Verwendung fur Verwaltung und Rechtsprechung im Schutzgebiet Kamerun (The Political Organization of the Natives and Its Use for General Administration and the Administration of Justice in the Cameroun Protectorate), Amtsblatt fur das Schutzgebiet Kameroun (Official Gazette for the Cameroun Protectorate), 1910. Photocopy.

Puttkamer, Jesko von. Gouverneursjahre in Kamerun (The Governor's Years in the Cameroun), 1912. Photoprint with French resume.

Rechte, Otto. Das abia-Glucksspiel der Jaunde und die Darstellungen auf den Spielmarken (The `Abia' Game of the Ewondo with a description of the Game Pieces), Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde im Hamburg (Communication of the Folklore Museum in Hamburg), IX (1924). Photoprint.

Rubin, Harry R. Germans in the Cameroons, 1884-1914: A Case Study in Modern Imperialism, 1938. Photocopy.

Schnee, Heinrich, (ed.). Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, 1920. Photoprints of selected articles.

Skolaster, Hermann. Die Pallottiner in Kamerun. 25 Jahre Missions-arbeit. (The Pallotine Fathers in the Cameroun. Twenty-five Years of Missionary Work), 1924. Photoprint.

Tessmann, Gunther. Die Pangwe, Volkerkundliche Monographie eines West-afrikanischen Negerstammes (The Pangwe Ethnological Monograph of a West African Tribe), 1913. Photoprint with French translation.

Tsala, Abbe Theodore.

L'abbe Tobie Atangana, l'un des huit premiers pretres camerounais (Abbe Tobie Atangana, One of the First Eight Cameroun Priests), Spiritus, 8, (1961). Typewritten transcript.

L'opinion d'un pretre camerounais sur la dot (The Opinion of a Camerounian Priest on the Dowry), 1953. Typewritten transcript with carbon copy.

La vie de Ze Mendouga (The Life of Ze Mendouga), Esse, undated. Photocopy.

Zenker, G. Yaunde in Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten (Information from Explorers and Scholars in the German Protectorates), 1895. Photoprint with English translation.

Zimmermann, Oscar. Durch Bucsh und Steppe, 1892-1902 (Through Bush and Savannah, 1892-1902), 1909. Photoprint of selected pages with French translation.

Zoa, Abbe Jean. Pour un nationalisme chretien (For a Christian Nationalism), 1957. Pamphlet.

Miscellaneous

Four tapes of Beti tribal chants.

Thin piece of market cloth used by the Beti.

See photo card catalog for description.