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.
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…
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.
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)
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…
Photocopy of a typescript copy (handwritten) of a travel report of his journey to Africa by Gottlob Lang, B.V. 954, stationed at Anyako (Togo) as a missionary for the N.M.G. Handed over to the archive in April 1988 by Mrs. I. Schudel (MS Eingangsbuch…
Paper submitted to the Ethnological Seminary at the University of Basel (Dr. B. Gardi) during her practical months at the seminary September 1984 by Doris Pfister, on the terracotta used on the graves of the Akan tribe in Ghana. Typescript copy.
A paper submitted at the 30th Session of the Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies - Ecumenical Institute, Bossey. K. Effa Ababio, Presbyterian minister in Ghana, who dedicated the paper to "Papa and Mama Buechner". Buechner then passed it on to the…
Various manuscripts , all apparently written by I. Bellon; 1.) Einiges aus der Geschichte Okwawus, einer Landschaft der Goldküste Westafrikas. On the history of Okwawu (Kwahu), a part of the Gold Coast. Handwritten draft, 14 pages, in Bellon's…
Exercise-book with a handwritten draft of talks on various subjects: his Ghanaian co-workers; mission schools; "The Black Man as judged by the Whites"; Church-law; All in German. Inlying typescript copies of two speeches held at the Inauguration of…
A 10 pages paper on marriage customs in Akwapim, in Twi and German, apparently written by Johann Adam Mader, Brüderverzeichnis 317 (Ghana 1851-77). This manuscript was handed over to the BM by the president of the Basel Church, who had it from Prof.…
Printed pamphlet on the so-called "Gall fever" on the Gold Coast, written by Dr. E. Mähly and published in the "Coorespondenz-Blatt für Schweiz. Aerzte, Jahrg. XV (1885)". In this copy Dr. Mähly added the names of missionaries to the examples of…
Loose sketch notes on Togo; app. in connection with journeys made by G. Martin, 1899, Josenhans, Groh and Dr. Fisch 1909 and Huppenbauer 1912. The notes seem to be an attempt at collecting information on Togo systematically (Huppenbauer's…
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