Ashanti law and constitution: field notes and genealogies. 1925.
Books I-X and 6 papers. Various sizes.
Handwritten.
Lantern slides held in the Photographic Collection.
Presented from the estate of the late Dr Rattray, 1938.
/1 Mampon stool … 1 note-block. 1601-1700 leaves, diagr., genealogy, index. Notes verso leaves 1601-2, 1610, 1621, 1623, 1633-4, 1639, 1642, 1647, 1650, 1655, 1657, 1667, 1671, 1673-4, 1676, 1678-9, 1689, 1695. 20.5 x 12 cm
/2 Commenced 28/4/25, Mamafe x cousins etc … 1 note-block. 1701-1800 leaves, diagrs., index. Notes verso leaves 1701, 1711, 1726, 1730, 1733-5, 1737-41, 1744-6, 1750-5, 1760, 1762-3, 1765-8, 1770-3, 1776-8, 1781-3, 1786-9, 1791-2, 1794, 1796. 20.5 x 12 cm
/3 Adoptions see 1640 … 1 note-block. 1801-1900 leaves, index. Notes verso leaves 1801, 1805, 1811-12, 1815-16, 1819-22, 1827, 1830, 1833, 1837-8, 1845-6, 1849-71, 1873-4, 1877, 1879-80, 1882-3, 1886-91, 1893-5, 1898-9. 20.5 x 12 cm
/4 Commenced 4/6/25, Enstoolment of Chief at Mampon … 1 note-block. 1901-2000 leaves, index. Notes verso leaves 1901, 1903, 1905-9, 1911, 1913-14, 1916, 1918-19, 1921-2, 1928-30, 1932-5, 1937-8, 1945, 1947, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1981-7, 1991, 1996-9. 20.5 x 12 cm
/5 Bekwai Ashanti, 18/6/25, continued from MS 107/4 leaf 2000. 1 notebook, 1, 192 pp., diagr., index, pp. 181-4 blank. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Bound in red marbled boards with black cloth spine
/6 Ashanti law & constitution commenced 2 July. 1 notebook, 204 pp., diagrs., genealogies, pp. 195-204 blank, p. 68a Genealogy of Asumegya, 1 sheet, 17.5 x 22.5 cm attached to p. 68. 178a, Kokofu genealogy, 1 sheet, 20 x 33 cm attached to p. 178. 17.5 x 11 cm. Bound in black boards
/7 Ashanti law & constitution begun 31/7/25, completed 22/8/25. vii, 177 pp., diagrs. and Ashanti legal maxims, 178-182 pp. 46a, Plan of chiefs palace at Kologu in olden times, 1 sheet, 20 x 33 cm attached to p. 46. 132a, Jauben genealogy, 1 sheet, 20 x 28 cm attached to p. 132, 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Bound in red marbled boards with black cloth spine
/8 Ashanti law , commenced 22 Aug.1925, Jauben. 40 leaves, diagrs., leaves 39-40 blank. Notes verso leaves 5, 10, 12-13, 16-18, 20-1, 24-5, 29, 31-3, 35, 37, p. 39a, Ekuru alias Apori, 1 genealogy, 33 x 40.5 cm attached to leaf 39. 18 x 11cm
/9 Ashanti law and constitution and history, commenced 27 Aug. 1925. 1 notebook. 190 pp., diagrs., genealogies, pp.182-6, 189-90 blank and Financial balance sheets pp. 187-8. 15a, Domma (Wam) genealogy, 1 sheet, 33 x 40.5 cm, attached to p. 15. 120a, Genealogy of Nkorawya, 1 sheet and 120b, Plan (not to scale) of Omanhene House at Kumawu, verso of 120a, 25.5 x 41 cm, attached to p. 120. 159a, Tekiman genealogy, 1 sheet, 20.5 x 33 cm, attached to p. 159. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Bound in red marbled boards with black cloth spine
/10 Ashanti law (points for special enquiry), 1925. 1 notebook. iii, 1-53, 52-172 pp., pp. 42, 53, 65, 82-168 blank and Programme for 1925-26, pp. 169-72. 18 x 11.5 cm. Bound in brown marbled boards with black cloth spine
/11 Kumawu genealogy: the earth at Santemansu. 2 pp. 41 x 25.5 cm
/12 Plan of chief’s house at Juaben, 1 sheet. 40.5 x 25 cm
/13 Mpobi Yaa: [genealogy]. 1 sheet. 20.5 x 33 cm
/14 Genealogy of Komfo Awkyi naming his ascendants and descendants: a cave at Adanse. 1 sheet. 39 x 33 cm
/15 Genealogy of Abene chiefs and Queen Mothers: Bonabom (in Adanse). 1 sheet. 40 x 32.5 cm
/16 District Commissioner’s Office, Central Province, Ejura, Ashanti, to R.S. Rattray, 21 July 1922 – sends remarks on decipherings and design rubbings of a 13th century Moorish pot. 1 p. 17 x 21 cm
