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Title
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A traditional poem attributed to Liongo Fumo entitled 'Mashairi haya aliporudi Liongo zitani kwa Wasegeju', with some notes on his legend. (Extr., Festschrift Meinhof, with commentary and notes by Alice Werner).
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Institution
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University of Oxford
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Collection Title
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Papers of W. H. Ingrams
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Creator(s)
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Liongo Fumo
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Alice Werner
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Collector(s)
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Rhodes House Library
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Description/Scope and Content
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William Harold Ingrams was Assistant District Commissioner in Zanzibar from 1919-1927, when he went to Mauritius as Colonial Secretary until 1934. He is the author of a number of works on Zanzibar, Mauritius, Arabia, Hong Kong, Uganda and the Yemen. This collection contains his papers, research, correspondence and other documents.
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Date
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1927-09-26
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Location
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Bodleian Library
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Identifier
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MS. Brit. Emp. s. 428 Box 4, File 6
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Language
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Swahili [? Tikuu dialect] and English
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Extent
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1 file
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Collection Type
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archival collection
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Level of Processing
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Mixed Processing
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Type of Materials/Format
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paper-manuscripts
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Provenance
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After his death in 1973, his collection was distributed among the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford, the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge and Rhodes House Library, Oxford. The reidue of the collection is now housed in the Bodleian (previously Rhodes House).
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Copyright
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Mixed
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Usage
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Medium (Occasional exhibit or research/educational use)
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Notes
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Some material is closed.
