Zulu materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Date: ca. 1920s
Contributor: Simango, Columbus Kamba | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject: Death--Philosophy | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | South Africa--History
Type: Text
Genre: Stories | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent: ca. 220 pages, 39 notebooks
Description: The Zulu material in the ACLS collection consists of brief references scattered throughout items AfBnd.3 and AfBnd.4, "Ndau lexica and ethnographic slips" and "Texts on Ndau culture" in the "Non-American and non-linguistic material" section of the finding aid. The extent and subjects of the Zulu material have not been fully evaluated, but they are believed to have come from Simango's knowledge, typically with reference to Ndau (Chindau).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c