African Poetics Digital Portal · File 4, fols. 1-119: large number of Masai songs, prayers, chants and poems on various topics and for ceremonial occasions in both original Masai language with English translation. All included in the unpublished manuscript 'Masai' (File 7).

File 4, fols. 1-119: large number of Masai songs, prayers, chants and poems on various topics and for ceremonial occasions in both original Masai language with English translation. All included in the unpublished manuscript 'Masai' (File 7).

Title: File 4, fols. 1-119: large number of Masai songs, prayers, chants and poems on various topics and for ceremonial occasions in both original Masai language with English translation. All included in the unpublished manuscript 'Masai' (File 7).
Institution: University of Oxford
Collection Title: Papers of Lord Claud David Hamilton (as listed in the Rhodes House Manuscript Collections, number 978)
Creator(s): Unknown [? various Masai tribes]
Collector(s): Lord Claud David Hamilton; Rhodes House Library
Description/Scope and Content: The collection includes correspondence on the Masai tribe, Kenya, with collections of tribal folk-tales and songs, articles on life in Kenya and a MS history of the Masai.
Date: 1958-1967
Location: Bodleian Library (formerly Rhodes House Library)
Identifier: MS. Afr. s. 1810 / 4
Language: Masai and English
Extent: 1 file
Collection Type: archival collection
Level of Processing: Fully Processed
Type of Materials/Format: paper-manuscripts
Provenance: Filmed for the National Archives of Kenya in October, 1982. Donated by A.T. Matson in May 1983.
Link: https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/1820
Usage: Medium (Occasional exhibit or research/educational use)