Folk lore and proverbs - description and analysis of folk tales, with actual examples in Chopi and English, including various versions of the Gilgamesh epic (story of creation and the flood), and Lenge riddles

This material is held atSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London

Reference
- GB 102 MS 380515/14
Dates of Creation
- n.d. [c.1931 - 1933
Physical Description
- 184pp.

Scope and Content

Early drafts of chapter for Earthy's publication, 'Valenge women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa'. Typed and manuscript notes, mostly in English, but some in Lenge/Chopi.

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Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Emily Dora EarthyMS 380515

Correspondence: Letter to Earthy from Winnie Hornter (?),dated 27 Oct.1924MS 380515/01

Typed draft with author's corrections of Earthy's book, 'Valenge women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa', with an introduction by A.C. Haddon.MS 380515/02

Social organisation and kinship system - including notes on chiefs and customs related to their accessionMS 380515/03

Material culture - food and taboos related to food, industries, trade and commerce, pottery, basketryMS 380515/04

Birth rites - taboos in pregnancy, miscarriages, birth procedures, and name-givingMS 380515/05

Early education - including children's games and Valenge dollsMS 380515/06

Tattooing, scarification and tribal marksMS 380515/07

Initiation ritesMS 380515/08

Marriage customs - including the "lobola" bride-price systemMS 380515/09

Death - burial and funeral rites, and widowhoodMS 380515/10

DancesMS 380515/11

Religion - beliefs about ancestral spirits, spirit-possession, seances and rites of sacrificeMS 380515/12

Religion - Lenge cosmology, divination and sorcery, and medicine menMS 380515/13

Folk lore and proverbs - description and analysis of folk tales, with actual examples in Chopi and English, including various versions of the Gilgamesh epic (story of creation and the flood), and Lenge riddlesMS 380515/14

"Initiation of girls in the Masiyeni district, Portuguese East Africa", by Earthy, reprinted from Annals of the Transvaal Museum, vol.xi, part 2.MS 380515/15

"The home of Mutswa: Marriage customs and home life", by N.J. Mbanse, abridged and translated by Earthy.MS 380515/16

"Activities of a Mandingo town" by Earthy.MS 380515/17

Lenge vocabulary notes, and miscellaneous manuscript Lenge texts.MS 380515/18

"The practical orthography of Tswana" - recommendations of the Tswana District Orthography Committee, by G.P. Lestrade.MS 380515/19