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"Activities of a Mandingo town" by Earthy.
Manuscript diary-style notes of various aspects of child life in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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Papers of Emily Dora Earthy
Correspondence: Letter to Earthy from Winnie Hornter (?),dated 27 Oct.1924
Typed draft with author's corrections of Earthy's book, 'Valenge women: the social and economic life...
Social organisation and kinship system - including notes on chiefs and customs related to their acce...
Material culture - food and taboos related to food, industries, trade and commerce, pottery, basketr...
Birth rites - taboos in pregnancy, miscarriages, birth procedures, and name-giving
Early education - including children's games and Valenge dolls
Tattooing, scarification and tribal marks
Initiation rites
Marriage customs - including the "lobola" bride-price system
Death - burial and funeral rites, and widowhood
Dances
Religion - beliefs about ancestral spirits, spirit-possession, seances and rites of sacrifice
Religion - Lenge cosmology, divination and sorcery, and medicine men
Folk lore and proverbs - description and analysis of folk tales, with actual examples in Chopi and E...
"Initiation of girls in the Masiyeni district, Portuguese East Africa", by Earthy, reprinted from An...
"The home of Mutswa: Marriage customs and home life", by N.J. Mbanse, abridged and translated by Ear...
"Activities of a Mandingo town" by Earthy.
Lenge vocabulary notes, and miscellaneous manuscript Lenge texts.
"The practical orthography of Tswana" - recommendations of the Tswana District Orthography Committee...
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