Anthropological papers by various people and correspondence, listed and annotated by A.W. Champion. [London, 1947].
57 pts. Various sizes
Handwritten and typewritten
1-54 listed by A.W. Champion; 55-7 additions.
Contents: Contents list by A.W. Champion
/1 The Wa-Langulu ... [by C.W. Hobley]
/2 The Wadigo of Vanga district, by G.H. Osborne
/3 An account of the taking of the oath of they hyena by the Giriama elders ... by J.M. Pearson
/ 4 The Giriama oath ... by C.W. Hobley [3 copies]
/5 Galla equivalents to the words in the Ariangulo vocabulary, by C.W. Hobley
/6 Personal names, by A.W. Champion
/7 Girijama clans, with covering letter dated 12 May 1914 by A.W. Champion
/8 Two letters from Sir J.G. Frazer, dated 4 Sep. 1909 and 27 Nov. 1920, and MS of Frazer's introduction to Hobley's book, dated 11 Mar. 1922
/9 Typescript of a monograph on the Masai; translated from the German by C. Dundas (t.p. wanting)
/10 Medicine plants in use in British East Africa, [by an unidentified author] (2 copies)
/11 Proposals for the application of anthropology to native administration (1930), by C.W. Hobley
/12 Memo of land ownership within the Kikuyu reserve, by F.W. Isaac
/13 The Ngoloko, [by an unidentified author]
/14 The regalia of the Wa-Vumba, by T. A. Dickson, with handwritten notes by C.W. Hobley
/15 Kikuyu system of land tenure; ... c. 1918, by J. Ainsworth
/16 Tribal and inter-tribal position and relations and their forms of government, by ? C.W. Hobley
/17 Letter on Masai folklore, dated 13 July 1906, addressed to A.C. Hollis, probably by C.W. Hobley
/18 [Customs of the Wa-Taveta]: 'Irika' 1914, by S.H. La Fontaine
/19 To ask the witch-doctor: Kikamba, Kwantaya, by O. Thermann
/20 Witchraft (uwe) amongst the Wakamba, by O. Thermann, with covering letter dated 27 Dec. 1912, by C. Dundas
/21 Notes on the Dorobo people and other tribes, by ? C.W. Hobley
/22 Ngai, by C. Dundas (with covering letter dated 14 Mar. 1913)
/23 Notes on Mogogodo tribe, by ? C.W. Hobley
/24 Letters 24 Nov. 1926 and 22 Feb. 1927 from C.C. Luck
/25 Letter, 18 Apr. 1923 from Sir H.H. Johnston
/26 Notes on the Dorobo people and other tribes ... [material for /21], by A.C.H.
/27 That ghosts and other psychic phenomena exist, by C.W. Hobley
/28 Letter dated 12 Sep. 1930, with notes on the Tharaka, by E.R. Shackleton
/29 The administration of the African, by C.W. Hobley
/30 African sign writing, by C.W. Hobley
/31 Notes on the Baringo district [by an unidentified author]
/32 The WaDegerre: [copy of a letter from 23 Dec. 1947], by G.H. Osborne
/33 Native law of debt etc.: memorandum by C.W. Hobley, with attached letters, F.W. Isaac [13 Aug. 1913] and C. Dundas [21 Aug. 1913] from A.W. Champion [8 Oct. 1913]
/34 The story of the Wawango being called Kavirondo ... notes by A.C. Hollis with covering letter dated 26 May 1923 from B. Tate
/35 Kikuyu songs, 2 pts., annotated by C.W. Hobley
/36 Names among the Kikuyu, by ? C.W. Hobley
/37 The Kichandi, by C.W. Hobley
/38 A Kikuyu oracle, [by an unidentified author]
/39 Evil eye, [by an unidentified author]
/40 Further researches into Kikuyu and Kamba customs, by C.W. Hobley
/41 Memorandum on Masai organisation and social life, by C. Dundas
/42 The grades of elders among the A-Kamba, by C.W. Hobley
/43 Further notes on the Ethnological Dorobo ... by C.W. Hobley
/44 Nature folklore, [with covering letter dated 10 Jan. 1923] by A. Loveridge
/45 Religious ideas and customs of the Wakamba, by ... Hofman [c. 1910]
/46 Kamba belief in spirits, by E. Brutzer-Imba
/47 The sacred fig-tree of the Kikuyu, by Merwyn W.H. Beech
/48 Memo on Masai ... by C. Dundas
/49 Mathembo groups of the Akamba; (copied from Political Record Book)
/50 Marriage, etc. [by an unidentified author]
/51 Customs of the Akamba ... by C. Dundas [missing 30.7.97]
/52 Varieties of the Kisuba language, by G.A.S. Northcote
/53 Ethnology of the A-Kamba tribe ... by C.W. Hobley
/54 History of the Kitui, by C. Dundas
/55 Extract from paper on Kikuyu land tenure, by E. Stone, with covering letter to Mr Dobbs, dated 29 June 1918, forwarded to C.H. Wedgwood 23 Aug. 1918
/56 Afrikanische Bilderschriften, by K. Weule, (printed article); translated and annotated by C.W. Hobley
/57 Letter from A.M. Champion, dated 11 May 1941