Rattray, Robert Sutherland (MS 106)

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Field notes. 1921-7.

25 noteblocks, leaves numbered 1-1600, 2001-2900, drawings, illus., rubbings, tables. Contents list inside back board of each block. 20.5 x 12 cm

Handwritten.

Note-blocks 1601-2000 see MS 107.

Table of contents on inside back cover of each noteblock.

Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection.

Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938.

/1 Genealogy …, 1-100 leaves, leaves 96, 98-100 blank. Notes verso 1eaves 1, 27, 68, 81, 84-7, 89

/2 Prohibited marriages … 101-200 leaves. Notes verso 1eaves 111, 122-3, 164

/3 Ashanti weights … 201-300 leaves, leaves 204, 239, 258 blank. Notes verso leaves 223, 285, 292, 299. Leaf 216, 6 x 12 cm

/4 Abrammuo … 302-400 leaves, missing leaves 301, 311-12; leaves 336, 374 blank. Notes verso leaves 361, 391, 394, 399

/5 Kobina Winak …, 401-500 leaves, leaf 500 blank. Notes verso leaves 464, 474, 497

/6 Gyebe Kaukanfo Oe?i adwoa odil … 502-599 leaves, missing leaves 501, 600; leaf 354 blank. Notes verso 507-9, 517-8, 522, 527, 529, 554, 563, 583, 585-7, 589, 592, 594-5, 598

/7 Baya ceremony continued on Monday (Fodivo) 29/5/27 … 601-700 leaves, leaves 610, 658, 665-700 blank. Notes verso leaves 610, 619, 629-30, 634-5, 640-4, 649-50 and France and her dark races: remarkable interview with General Mangin; by Sisley Huddleston. Paris, [nd]. 1 newspaper cutting attached to leaf 662. 41 x 6.5 cm. Printed

/8 Drum talking (Mampeu records) cylinders, No. 1 … 701-800 leaves, leaves 738, 760-1 blank. Notes verso leaves 701, 703, 708-9, 712, 715-6, 723, 725-6, 729, 736, 739-40, 779, 781-2, 791-2

/9 Weaving Ntama-nweno … 802-900 leaves, leaf 801 missing, leaves 803, 823, 831-4 blank. Notes verso leaves 848, 853

/10 Obonus ceremony at Tekiman … 901-1000 leaves, leaf 901 bound after leaf 1000. Notes verso leaves 904, 906-7, 910-2, 914, 920, 922, 925, 927, 929-38, 941-2, 946-50, 953, 955, 958-9, 962-3, 967, 969, 974, 978, 981, 983-4, 992, 998

/11 Bosomtine? Pampis ?: notes taken at Tano Boase … 1001-1098 leaves, missing leaves 1099-2000. Notes verso leaves 1006, 1008-13, 1016-17, 1021-4, 1030, 1036-40, 1043-5, 1050, 1054-5, 1059, 1062, 1070, 1073-4, 1077, 1080-2, 1085, 1087-91, 1093, 1096-7

/12 Odwina contd. 16/5/23 … 1101-1200 leaves, leaves 1162, 1192 blank. Notes verso leaves 1108, 1117, 1138, 1146

/13 [Weaving] fitted into spindal … 1202-1300 leaves, missing leaf 1201, leaves 1288-1300 blank. Notes verso leaf 1219

/14 Phonograph records … 1301-1400 leaves, leaves 1310-1400 blank

/15 Ns?, cloth use of at funerals … 1401-1500 leaves, leaves 1408, 1498, 1500 blank. Notes verso leaves 1420, 1424-7, 1430, 1438, 1461, 1491

/16 Training of priest continued from p. 1499 … 1501-1599 leaves, missing leaf 1600, leaves 1523, 1544-99 blank. Notes verso leaves 1509, 1516, 1527, 1535, 1537

/17 History & constitution, 1925 … 2001-2100 leaves, leaves 2086-100 blank. Notes verso leaves 2001-2, 2010, 2016-18, 2020-4, 2026, 2029, 2036-8, 2040, 2044-6, 2052, 2054, 2056, 2062, 2071, 2073, 2079

/18 References to subject headings for my next books Ashanti law & constitution and Ashanti history & folklore … 2101-2200 leaves, leaves 2144, 2162-2200 blank. Notes verso leaves 2102, 2105, 2110-12, 2119, 2128-9, 2132-3, 2149

/19 Notes on Maine’s Ancient law commenced 14 Nov. 1925 … 2201-2300 leaves, leaves 2203, 2238-300 blank. Notes verso 1eaf 2208

/20 Enstoolment 16/1/26 … 2302-2400 leaves, missing leaf 2301, leaf 2325 blank. Notes verso 1eaves 2302-3, 2312, 2314-15, 2320, 2322-3, 2325-6, 2328-9, 2338, 2342-4, 2347, 2349, 2352-4, 2358, 2360-1, 2366-7, 2370, 2372-4, 2377, 2382-93, 2395, 2398

/21 Book 12, Ashanti law … 2401-2500 leaves, leaf 2417 blank. Notes verso leaves 2401-2, 2406, 2408-12, 2414-15, 2417, 2422-5, 2427, 2441-2, 2447-8, 2450,2452-3, 2455, 2457, 2460, 2467, 2469, 2472, 2475-6, 2479-82, 2488, 2490-4, 2496-8

/22 Book No.13, Ancient law (Ashanti) notes made at Kumawis … 2501-2600 leaves, leaves 2529-600 blank. Notes verso leaves 2501, 2504, 2506-10, 2517-18, 2520, 2527

/23 Adamfo in Kumasi … 2601-2700 leaves, leaves 2683-2700 blank. Notes verso leaves 2601-2, 2606, 2608-9, 2614, 2621, 2628, 2632, 2636-8, 2644-5, 2647, 2649-50, 2652-4, 2656, 2658-67, 2676 and list of names attached to leaf 2668. 17 x 21.5 cm

/24 Kumasi; Adamfo in Kumasi of outside chiefs … 2701-2800 leaves, missing leaf 2799, leaves 2760-800 blank. Notes verso leaves 2704-6, 2713-14, 2716, 2720-1, 2725-30, 2733, 2742-3, 2747, 2754-5

/25 Book I, History & constitution of Kwawu, (commenced 9th June 1927) completed 4/7/27 … 2801-2900 leaves, leaf 2815 blank. Notes verso 1eaves 2801-2, 2804, 2807, 2809-10, 2815, 2819, 2822, 2827, 2830-1, 2833, 2836, 2839, 2847, 2850-3, 2855-8, 2865, 2869-70, 2872, 2874-8, 2880-1, 2885, 2892, 2894-5