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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.

Manuscript notebook containing a vocabulary list of a number of African languages, chiefly Hausa, written by John Clarke in Fernando Po, 1841.

Grammar of the Binandele language, Mamba River, British New Guinea, including grammar notes, Gouin exercises and translations and Binandele-English and English-Binandele dictionaries.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, c 1908-1911, comprise notes (original and abstracted) on folklore, history, and linguistics including sketches. The collection includes studies of Albania focusing on folklore, 'Early people of the Balkan peninsula', the study of the Albanian language and includes some photographs within some booklets.

Vocabulary of the Indigenous Australian dialect, Wiradhuri, collected by James Günther, 1839, including notes on grammar, added by Günther, in 1840 and 24 Aug 1871.