'Rimi (Nyaturu) Box 6: Testimonies and notes, Wahi XXXVI-LVIII'.

Manuscript notes taken on various subjects following interviews with people, detailed list in box. Topics include creation myths, cosmology, warfare, twins, music, sacrifice, mortuary and ancestral rites, praising the sun, and circumcision. Also cosmologies of other groups such as the Shona, Nand...

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Order number: PP MS 57, Jellicoe, Box 6
Date(s) of creation: 1966 - 1976
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: PP MS 57, Jellicoe, Box 6
Summary: Manuscript notes taken on various subjects following interviews with people, detailed list in box. Topics include creation myths, cosmology, warfare, twins, music, sacrifice, mortuary and ancestral rites, praising the sun, and circumcision. Also cosmologies of other groups such as the Shona, Nandi and Kipsigis. Correspondence concerning research. Article: `Boys puberty rites among the Turu of Central Tanzania',(n.d.) MJ Article: `Praising the Sun: Ikungi, Singida District', MJ 1969
Access status: Open
Language: English
Nyaturu
File number: 6
Format: Archive