Papers of Robert Sutherland Rattray, [1919-1930] including:
MS 101 and 102
19 anthropological papers by various authors, [1919-25].
MS 103
Manuscript transliteration of Hausa laws [from Arabic to Hausa] in a number of hands; with an introduction and preface by Rattray.
MS 104
Three notebooks containing manuscript notes on Nankani customs, [1928-1929].
MS 105
Six notebooks containing notes on language, grammar and vocabulary of a number of languages including Mole and Isal, 1928-1929.
MS 106
25 note-blocks containing notes on subjects including genealogy; prohibited marriages; Ashanti weights; Abrammuo; Kobina Winak, Headman; Baya ceremony; drum talking cylinders; weaving Ntama-nweno; Obonus ceremony at Tekimas; Nsa, cloth use at funerals; Ashanti law, constitution, history and folklore; Maine's Ancient Law; enstoolment; training of a priest; Adamfo in Kuman and the history and constitution of Kwawu.
MS 107
Notebooks containing field notes and genealogies on Ashanti law and constitution, 1925.
MS 108
Note blocks containing field notes, 1927, on subjects including Kwawu; Nkyinnyewa or Nkwawie and genealogy notes of Osai Bonsu mamid.
MS 109
Note blocks containing field notes, 1928-1930, on subjects including: vocabularies of a number of African languages; Nankani customs and folk tales; the Dagaba classification-system; Isala modern constitution claims; Isala and Dagaba tribes; kobi classification system, inheritance and clans; Kusassi custom; Mamprum constitution; Dagomba constitution and history of Gwalo.
MS 445
Photographs and illustrations taken in Ashanti and the Northern Territories, Ghana, with letters and record books.
Rattray , Robert Sutherland , 1881-1938 , colonial official and ethnographer