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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Vocabularies: West African dialects


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 15

Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Title: Vocabularies: West African dialects

Date(s): [mid 19th century]

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notebook comprising vocabulary lists of Western African dialects including of the Ashira, Mpongwe and Pangwe peoples, including notes on grammar and account of 'Krapf march in Eastern Africa', mid 19th century.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, Ashira, Mpongwe and Pangwe

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.

Physical characteristics:

101, [54] leaves. 25 x 20 cm Handwritten; final eight leaves blank. Dark green cloth boards; lettered in gold up the spine

Finding aids:

Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Dictionaries | Reference materials | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
African languages

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
West Africa | Africa
East Africa