A study and some correspondence on the death of Captain Benson during the Asante war in 1900, written at the request of William Preiswerk of the UTC (United Trading Company) by Hedwig Graf, a former secretary of the Basel Mission and at that time…
Typescript. Autobiography of the African Osofo (Rev.) Albert Binder, translated from the Ewe language by Paul Wiegräbe of the NMG and given to the BM archive in March 1991 (1991/8)
Written by Rev. A. P. v. d. Broek, Agriculturalist / Pastor at Tamale, 1977, revised March 1984. 5 pages with copy of a letter by Rev. Edwards-Raudonat, Tamale, 25.10.1991, who sent this pamphlet to the archive.
2 files with a typescript of fairy-tales of the Dagomba, in German, collected and translated by H. Huppenbauer in 1916. The manuscript was handed over to the archive by H. Huppenbauer's son Hanswalter Huppenbauer in February 1988, together with a…
File with correspondence on various words of the Dagomba language and how to translate them the best way. Handed over to the BM archive in April 1988 (1988/17) by Hanns Walter Huppenbauer.
Folder with an essay by the former missionary J.G. Lang, B.V.954, apparently written for the synod in 1885, on mission work in West-Africa. Copy of a handwritten MS. It was handed over to the archive in 1988 (1988/19) by the owner of the original.
Book of accounts used by H. A. Kaundinya in Kyebi. The book was part of a metal-trunk full of documents handed over to the archive by W. Stamm, nephew of H. A. Kaundinya and grandson of M. Kaundinya+ H. Kaundinya-Reinhardt (B.V. 316/Indien), whose…
A dissertation submitted to the Department of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon, as part fulfilment of the award of Master of Philosophy degree, June 1989.
A bound note-book with the Symbols of the Ghanaian gold weights cut out from photographs and glued in with the names of the Symbols in hand-writing. (For the photographs see Q-30) By Rudolf Bürki (B.V.1401, Ghana 1899-1909) Handed over to the archive…
Historical notes on the Basel Mission and on missionaries and mission work in Ghana, 1815-1915, with only a few entries after 1900. Handwritten, R. Bürki handed over to the archive May 1990 by Bürki's daughter Margrit Bürki (S.V. 308) (1990/14)
Typescript copy on the origin of the stories told among the people of the Twi tribe, by J. Grauer (B.V. 1588, Ghana 1906-17). Handed over to the archive May 1990 by Bürki's daughter Margrit Bürki (S.V. 308) (1990/14)
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