Box 1
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Contains 1 Result:
Jata [or Jatta], Unus, griot of the royal families of Niumi, in Kanuma, Niumi, on Niumi kinglist, mansas, and socio-economic history of Niumi. Recorded Jan. 14 1975 by Donald Wright, 15, 12 leaves (2 copies); another interview with Unus Jatta, in Sanyang, Kombo, Sept. 7 1974 recorded by B.K. Sidibe and D.R. Wright, 10 leaves (2 copies); another interview with Unus Jatta, in Berending, Jan. 7 1974 recorded by D.R. Wright, 19 leaves (2 copies)., 1974-1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates:
1974-1975