Register of the Eugene Frederick Quinn papers
Finding aid prepared by Harold P. Anderson
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Title: Eugene Frederick Quinn papers
Date (bulk): 1960-1970
Collection Number: 72099
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In French, English, and German
Physical Description:
18 manuscript boxes, 3 microfilm reels, 2 envelopes, 1 expanding folder, 4 sound tape reels
(7.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Research notes and drafts, lists, writings, interviews, copies of government documents, printed matter, tapes of tribal chants,
memorabilia, and photographs relating to the Beti society of Cameroon. Many of these documents were used by E. F. Quinn as
research material for his dissertation, entitled "Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960" (University of California, Los Angeles,
1970). Entire collection also available on microfilm (7 reels).
Creator:
Quinn, Eugene Frederick
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eugene Frederick Quinn Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Biographical Note
| 1935 September 16 |
Born, Oil City, Pennsylvania |
| 1957 |
AB, Allegheny College |
| 1969 |
MA, Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1966 |
MA, African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1974 |
Diploma, Theological Studies, Virginia Theological Seminary |
| 1970 |
PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles |
| |
Author, "Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960" [PhD dissertation] |
| 1958-1959 |
Information officer, U.S. Information Agency, American Embassy, Rabat, Morocco |
| 1961-1963 |
Country public affairs officer, U.S. Information Agency, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta |
| 1959-1961 |
Cultural affairs officer, U.S. Information Agency, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, |
| 1964-1966 |
Field representative, U.S. Information Agency, Joint United States Affairs Office, Saigon, Vietnam |
| 1966-1968 |
Country public affairs officer, U.S. Information Agency, American Embassy, Yaounde, Cameroon |
| 1969-1970 |
Chairman, State Department Task Force Working Group on Recruitment, Examination and Employment |
| |
Deputy Examiner, Board of Examiners of the Foreign Service, Washington, D.C. |
| 1975-1978 |
Counselor, Embassy for Press and Cultural Affairs, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1981-1983 |
Director, foreign service personnel, Voice of America, Washington, D.C. |
| 1981 |
Appointed career member with class of counselor, Senior Foreign Service |
| 1985-1986 |
Director, Office of Public Affairs, Voice of America |
| 1983-1985 |
Deputy assistant secretary, public affairs, Department of Transportation |
| 1975 |
Ordained to ministry, Episcopal Church |
| 1986 |
Appointed career member with class of minister-counselor, Senior Foreign Service |
| 1986-1991 |
International coordinator for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Director's Office, United States Information
Agency
|
| 1992- |
Consultant, international affairs |
| 1993 |
Author,
The Federalist Papers Reader
|
| 1994 |
Author,
To Heal the Earth: A Theology of Ecology
|
| 1993-1995 |
Director, Rule of Law programs, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights, Warsaw
|
| 1999 |
Author,
Human Rights and You: A Guide for the States of the Former Soviet Union and Central Europe
|
| 1998 |
Author,
Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East
|
| 2001 |
Author,
To Be A Pilgrim: The Anglican Ethos in History
|
| 2000 |
Author,
The French Overseas Empire
|
| 2002 |
Author,
The Courthouse at Indian Creek: The First Five Years of the Greenbelt Maryland Federal Courthouse
|
| 2002 |
Author,
African Saints: Saints, Martyrs, and Holy People from the Continent of Africa
|
| 2004 |
Author,
Building the "Goodly Fellowship of Faith": A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996
|
| 2003 |
Co-author,
Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
|
| 2008 |
Author,
The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in Western Thought
|
| 2006 |
Author,
In Search of Salt: Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960
|
| 2012 |
Author,
Welcoming the Interfaith Future: Religious Pluralism in a Global Age
|
Scope and Contents of Collection
Research notes and drafts, lists, writings, interviews, copies of government documents, printed matter, tapes of tribal chants,
memorabilia, and photographs relating to the Beti society of Cameroon. Many of these documents were used by E. F. Quinn as
research material for his dissertation, entitled "Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960" (University of California, Los Angeles,
1970).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Cameroon -- History
Beti (African people)
Ethnology -- Cameroon
Cameroon -- Social life and customs
PROJECT FILE FOR BETI SOCIETY STUDY
1966-1974
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, drafts, research notes, outlines, resumes, and bibliographies related to Frederick Quinn's project to write
a history of Beti society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The history is an unpublished dissertation, entitled
"Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960" (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). See box 17 for a bound copy of the dissertation.
box 1
Tsala, Abbe Theodore
1968-1971
box 1
Zoa, Jean, Archbishop of Yaounde, Cameroun
1967
Drafts (incomplete) of "Beti Society in the Nineteenth Century," by Frederick Quinn
box 2
Outlines, chronological and topical
CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES
1822-1961
Scope and Contents note
Photoprints, photocopies, and typewritten transcripts of documents in the British Public Record Office, the Cameroun National
Archives, and the Institut de Recherches scientifiques du Cameroun, and photoprints and photocopies of selected pages of French
and German publications, collected by Quinn during the 1960s, arranged chronologically by date of document or publication,
with undated documents contained in the folders marked undated. A partial list of documents and publications contained in
the 1916-1950 folders, prepared by Quinn, is contained in the first folder.
See also: Declassified U.S. Government Records, 2016 January release of records.
box 3
List (partial) of documents in 1916-1950 folders
1933
Scope and Contents note
Chef de Region Cournaire. "Note sur les coutumes des populations de la region du Nyong et Sanaga," typewritten transcript.
Dugast. "Documents recueillis en pays Mangisa (Documents collected in the Land of the Mangisa)"
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of typescript.
Sheikh al-Islam (Six Months Ago)
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of untitled manuscript in North African Arabic with English translation attached.
Talinde. "Quelques fétiches des Ewondo (Fetishes of the Ewondo)"
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of typescript.
COLLECTED UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS
1903-1968
Scope and Contents note
Holographs, typescripts, transcripts, photoprints, photocopies, and carbon copies of unpublished writings in English, French,
and Ewondo, for the most part prepared or collected in response to inquiries made by Quinn among the inhabitants of the Yaounde
Region of the Cameroun, arranged alphabetically by author or title.
box 10
Atangana, Charles. "Discussion of the Evolution of the Role of Chief in the Yaounde Region of the Cameroun,"
1929, 1968
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript with photocopy and carbon copies in French, with an introductory note entitled, "Charles Atangana and
the Ewondo Chiefs: A Document by Frederick Quinn."
"Definitions of Forms of Sorcery among the Beti,"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript in French.
"Le tam-tam ou 'Nkoul' (The Tom-Tom),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript with carbon copy in French.
Atangana, Abbe Tobie. "Nti Angono Woo (Zee) (The Leopard Named Zee),"
circa 193?, 1968
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript in Ewondo with French translation by Abbe Theodore Tsala.
"Benediction nuptiale de la jeune fille par ses parents (Nuptial Blessing of a Young Girl by Her Parents),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in Ewondo and French.
Betene (also: Beteyene and Beteyne), Abbe Pierre
"Le Chant dans la vie traditionnelle du Beti (Song in the Traditional Life of the Beti),"
circa 1967-1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"D'une generation a une autre: etude des changements survenues dans notre societe depuis 25 ans (From One Generation to the
Next: A Study of the Changes Occuring in Our Society Over the Past Twenty-Five Years),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Enquete sur les Beti du Sud-Cameroun (An Investigation of Beti Society in the Southern Cameroun),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
Bikoa, Materne and Pierre Betene. "La Musique Traditionnelle en pays Beti (Traditional Music in the Land of the Beti),"
1967, undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy and photocopy in French and Ewondo, with an introductory note by Frederick Quinn.
Bikoa, Materne. "An Investigation of the Evolution of Beti Society,"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Biographie de Charles Atangana Ntsama, Chef superieur des Ewondo (Biography of Charles Atangana Ntsama, Chief Superior of
the Ewondo),"
circa 1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French.
"Chant (Les Ewondo pleurent Atangana Ntsama) (Chant: The Ewondo Weep for Atangana Ntsama),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript in Ewondo and French.
Chilver, E. M. and P. M. Kaberry. Draft notes on "The Kingdom of Kom (West Cameroun) in the 19th Century,"
1964
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of typescript.
"Les croyances des Beti a travers la semantique et les maximes (Religious Beliefs of the Beti as Revealed in Their Semantics
and Maxims),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript in French and Ewondo.
"Les Beti (The Beti),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
"Les Beti, supplement aux recherches sociologiques sur les 'Beti de Nnanga' (The Beti: Supplement to the Sociological Research
on the Beti of Nnanga),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French with a letter, list of questions, and a list of project expenses attached.
"Remarques sur les 'Notes sur les coutumes des populations de la region du Nyong et Sanaga,' par Cournaire (Remarks on the
'Notes on the Customs of the People of the Nyong and Sanaga Region,' by Cournaire),"
1933 December
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
Embolo, Abbe Laurent. "Rapport a l'enquete sur les Betis (Report on the Inquiry about the Beti),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
Essomba, Abbe Frederick. "Religion traditionnelle (Traditional Religion),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph in French.
"Le fétichisme et la guerison en pays Bassa (Fetishism and Herbal Medicine in the Land of the Bassa),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
Foudda, Max Abe. "Histoire des Betis (Ewondo) (History of the Ewondo Beti),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
"Genealogie de la tribu Mbid' Ambani (Genealogy of Mbid' Ambani Tribe),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
"Genealogie generale de la tribu D'Enoa (Genealogy of the D'Enoa Tribe),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
"Genealogy of the Nda-Bod Mvog Amougui Mbezele, or Mvog Elomo,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
Laburthe-Tobra, Philippe. "Essai de synthese sur l'histoire des populations dites 'Beti' de la region de Minlaba (sud du Nyong)
(Essay on the History of the Beti of the Minlaba Region [South of the Nyong]),"
1973
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph of a communication in French.
"Le mariage des Beti et ses differentes sortes (The Variety of Marriages among the Beti),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
Mballa Foe, Martin. "Genealogie generale de la tribu Mvog Amougou (Genealogy of the Mvog Amougu Tribe),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French; notes of an interview with Owono Ndi Cyprien attached.
"Une image de l'Afrique precoloniale (A Description of Pre-Colonial Africa),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript in French.
"De la poesie camerounaise (Camerounian Poetry),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
"Le 'nken' (The Nken Bell),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript in French and Ewondo.
Onana, Ambroise Alfred Marzavan
box 11
"Genealogie des Beti (Genealogy of the Beti),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of holograph in Ewondo; holograph and carbon copy of typescript French translation by Onana.
box 11
"Genealogie generale de la tribu Mvog-Amugu (Genealogy of the Mvog-Amugu Tribe),"
1967-1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in Ewondo; holograph and typescript with carbon copy French translation by Onana.
box 11
"Minkana/Paraboles (Proverbs),"
1967-1968?
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in Ewondo and French, and partial holograph in Ewondo and French.
"Les rites fétichistes anciens des Ewondo (Fetish Rites of the Ewondo),"
1967-1968?
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of holograph in Ewondo; holograph and typescript with carbon copy French translations by Onana.
"Open Letter to Pope John XXIII from the Diocesan Clergy of Yaounde, Cameroun,"
1960 October 6
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript.
box 12
"Principaux instruments de musiques des Beti (Principal Musical Instruments of the Beti),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"La procedure du mariage au sein de certaines familles cotieres du Cameroun - La dot (The Marriage Customs of Certain Coastal
Families of the Cameroun - The Dowry),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Situation sociale de la femme chez les Beti (The Social Status of Women among the Beti),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript (incomplete) in French and Ewondo.
The, M. S. de. "Influences des femmes sur l'evolution des structures sociales chez les Beti du Sud-Cameroun (The Influence
of Women on the Evolution of the Social Structure of the Beti of the Southern Cameroun),"
1965 March
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript with carbon copy of a thesis presented to the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, University
of Paris.
Tjamag, Louis. "Le foot-ball au Cameroun (Soccer in the Cameroun),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Benedictions et maledictions (Benedictions and Maledictions),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
Description of Beti society
1968
Scope and Contents note
Untitled typescript with carbon copy beginning "Geographie et Populations (Geography and People)...," in French and Ewondo.
"Charles Atangana Ntsama"
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of typescript in French.
"Curriculum vitae de l'abbe Theodore Tsala Etono (Biography of Abbe Theodore Tsala Etono),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Le gouvernement des Beti (The Government of the Beti),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Interdits (Interdictions),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French and Ewondo.
"Monseigneur Francois Xavier Vogt,"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French.
"La mort de Zibi Ngomo et les sacrifices humains (The Death of Zibi Ngomo and Human Sacrifices),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript in French.
"Les noms des jours (The Names of Days),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
"Organization Judiciaire (Organization of the Judiciary),"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
"Les parents et les enfants: Bebonde ai bon (Parents and Children),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copies in French and Ewondo.
"Principales valeurs sociales des Beti (Principal Social Values of the Beti),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French.
"Regles de vie sacerdotale (Rules of Priestly Life),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copies in French.
"Des vedettes de l'evangelisation du Cameroun (Prominent Figures in the Evangelizing of the Cameroun),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with carbon copy in French and Ewondo.
Vieter, P. "Erinnerungen aus Kamerun, 1890-1903 (Recollections of the Cameroun, 1890-1903),"
circa 1903
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of typewritten transcript in German.
Vincent, Jeanne-Francoise and Abbe Theodore Tsala. "Mort, revenants et sorciers d'apres les proverbes des Beti du Sud-Cameroun
(Death, Ghosts, and Witches, Based on Proverbs of the Beti of the Southern Cameroun),"
1968
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of typescript in French.
Wars among Beti Tribes
circa 1968
Scope and Contents note
Untitled typescript with carbon copy in French.
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents note
Partial manuscripts in French and Ewondo.
ORAL INTERVIEWS
1967-1968
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten transcripts, notes, and correspondence related to oral interviews conducted, for the most part,
among Beti tribal elders by Quinn, arranged alphabetically by name of interviewee.
box 13
Atangana, Francois. Near Mbalmayo
1967 May 2
box 13
Atangana Amengue, Henri. Mfou
1968 April 5
18
May 26
box 13
Ateba, Albert and Philibert
1968 April 19
box 13
Betayene, Jean Faustin. Yaounde
1968?
Scope and Contents note
"Conversation Concerning Colonial Occupation and the Independence Movement in Cameroun History."
box 13
Binzi, Benoit. Near Yaounde
1968 May 14
26
box 13
Bissome Dza, Paul (Bisso Mezda, Gotefried)
1968 March 18
26
box 13
Brunchweg, Henri
1968 June 1
Scope and Contents note
Notes on conversation.
box 13
Essomba, Abbe Frederick. Mbalmayo
1968 March 14
box 13
Fonda, Max Abe. Mkolbewa
1967 December 23
1968 January 6
box 13
Mballa Foe, Martin and Owona Nde Cyprian. Mbalmayo
1968 March 14-15
box 13
Mbida, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Marie.
1968 July 28
box 13
Mbida, Mbelle
1968 February 15
box 13
Mebe, Pierre
1967-1968
Scope and Contents note
April?, May 10, June 30, July 7, 12, 14, 20, 22, August 6, November 1, 8, 16, and December 21, 1967;
February 8, 22, 1968.
box 13
Messie Alogo. Mfou
1968 April 4
12
box 13
Okah Mbana Fabian, Fouda Ngono Jean, Ayissi Nsimi Laurant, Ahanda Ayissi Etienne, and Alima Etoundi Charles. Ngondemezap
1968 March 18
box 13
Onana Mbida, Hubert. Ngomedzap
1968 March 19
August 5-7
box 13
Ondoua Awoumou, Laurent. Near Mbalmayo
1968 March 14
31
box 13
Owono, Joseph
1968 July 8
box 13
Tsala, Abbe Theodore. Mvolye
1968
Scope and Contents note
February 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, March? 2, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 7, 22, 24, May 1, 5, 14, 30, June 6, July 6, 10, 14, and August
1, 1968.
box 13
Ze, Marie-Jean
1968 April 4
box 13
Zoa, Archbishop Jean. Yaounde
1967 November 30
PUBLISHED MATTER
1893-1970
Scope and Contents note
Transcripts, photoprints, photocopies, offprints, resumes, and translations of periodical literature, books, and other printed
matter in English, French, German, and Ewondo, collected by Quinn, in part from the London Library of the Royal Geographic
Society, arranged alphabetically by author or title.
box 13
Alexandre, Pierre. "Proto-histoire du groupe beti-bulu-fang: essai de synthese provisoire (Proto-History of the Beti-Bulu-Fang
Group: An Essay),"
1962-1963
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Aken So (le rite So) chez les Yaoundes-Banes (The 'So' Rite among the Yaoundes-Banes),"
Anthropos
1942
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript in French and Ewondo.
"Lebenslauf Karl Atangana/Curriculum Vitae de Charles Atangana (Life of Charles Atangana)," selection from Heepe (ed.),
Yaounde-Text,
1919
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy in German; typescript transcript in French.
"Avec Charles Atangana: Une page d'histoire camerounaise (With Charles Atangana: A Page from Camerounian History),"
L'Effort Camerounais,
1958 May 10
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Budgets familiaux des planteurs de cacao au Cameroun (Family Budgets of Cacao Planters in the Cameroun),"
1956
Scope and Contents note
In L'Homme d'outre-mer (The Man Over-Seas) series of the Conseil superieur de la Recherche sociologique outre-mer (Council
on Over Seas Sociological Research). Photocopy.
"Groupes socio-professionnels au Cameroun (Socio-Professional Groups in the Cameroun),"
Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, XXIV
1958
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Bot Ba Njock, Henri Marcel. "Preeminences sociales et systeme politico-religieux dans la societe traditionnelle Bulu et Fang
(Social Preeminence and the Political-Religious System in the Traditional Society of the Bulu and Fang),"
Journal de la Societe des Africanistes
1961
Scope and Contents note
Offprint.
Buell, Raymond Leslie.
The Native Problem in Africa,
1928
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
Chilver, E. M. "Nineteenth Century Trade in the Bamenda Grass-fields, Southern Camerouns,"
Afrika und Ubersee, XLV
1961
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Chilver, E. M. and P. M. Kaberry
"From Tribute to Tax in a Tikar Chiefdom,"
Africa, XXX
1960
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint.
"Traditional Government in Bafut, West Cameroun,"
The Nigerian Field, XXVIII
undated
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Dark, Philip. "Notes on the Eton of the Southern French Cameroons,"
Man, LV
1955
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
box 14
Vom Atantik zum Tschadsee: Kriegs-und Forschungs-fahrten in Kamerun (From the Atlantic to Lake Chad: Voyages of War and Discovery
in Cameroun),
1908
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages with French translation.
box 14
Kamerun: sechs Kriegs-und Friendensjahre in den deutschen Tropen (Cameroun: Six Years of War and Peace in the German Tropics)
1901
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages with English translation.
Dankelmann (ed.).
Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten (Information from Explorers and Scholars
in the German Protectorates)
1889-1890
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
Dussercle, Roger. Du
Kilima-Ndjaro au Cameroun: Monseigneur F.-X. Vogt (1870-1943) (From Kilimanjaro to the Cameroun: Monseigneur F.-X. Vogt [1870-1943]),
1950
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages.
Franqueville, A. "Naissance et analyse d'un paysage urbain: Yaounde (Birth and Analysis of an Urban Landscape: Yaounde),"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of typescript.
Haberer. D. "Jaunde (The Ewondo),"
Kamerun,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages.
Heepe, M. (ed.). "Jaunde-Texte von Karl Atangana und Paul Messi (Ewondo Texts of Charles Atangana and Paul Messi)" in
Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts (Transactions of the Hamburg Colonial Institute),
1919
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint in German and Ewondo; manuscript and typescript with carbon copies of French translation.
box 15
Institute Geographique National (Yaounde) Service Geographique (Brazzaville). Map of Yaounde, Republique du Cameroun
1960
"Retainers and Royal Households in the Cameroons Grassfields,"
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 10
196?
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Traditional Politics in Nsaw,"
Africa, XXIX
1959
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Kaberry, P. M. and E. M. Chilver. "An Outline of the Traditional Political System of Bali-Nyonga, Southern Cameroons,"
Africa, XXXI
1961
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Morgan, C.
Durch Kamerun von Sud nach Nord. Reisen und Forschungen im Hinterlande 1889 bis 1891 (Across the Cameroun from South to North.
Travels and Studies in the Interior from 1889 to 1891),
1893
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages; typescript French translation.
"Jaunde und seine Bewohner (Sudkamerun) (Yaounde and Its Inhabitants [Southern Cameroun]),"
Koloniale Rundschau, 8
1912
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with English translation.
"Totemistische manistische Anschauungen der Jaunde in ihren Kultfeiern und Geheimbunden (Some Views about Death-Worship and
Totemic Symbols in Ewondo Cult Rites and Secret Societies),"
Koloniale Rundschau, 9
1913
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with French and English resumes.
Vier Jahre im Kameruner Hinterland (Four Years in the Cameroun Hinterland),
1912
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint.
Passarge, S. "Die Geschichte der Erforschung und Eroberung Kameruns (History of the Exploration and Conquest of the Cameroun),"
Beitschrift fur Kolonialpolitik, Kolonialrecht und Kolonialwirtschaft (Note on Colonial Policy, Colonial Law, and Colonial
Economy)
edited by the Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society)
1908
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with French translation.
Pogge von Strandmann, H. "The German Role in Africa and German Imperialism: A Review Article,"
African Affairs, 69
1970
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Die politische Organisation der Eingeborenen und ihre Verwendung fur Verwaltung und Rechtsprechung im Schutzgebiet Kamerun
(The Political Organization of the Natives and Its Use for General Administration and the Administration of Justice in the
Cameroun Protectorate),"
Amtsblatt fur das Schutzgebiet Kameroun (Official Gazette for the Cameroun Protectorate),
1910
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Puttkamer, Jesko von.
Gouverneursjahre in Kamerun (The Governor's Years in the Cameroun),
1912
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with French resume.
Rechte, Otto. "Das abia-Glucksspiel der Jaunde und die Darstellungen auf den Spielmarken (The 'Abia' Game of the Ewondo with
a Description of the Game Pieces),"
Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde im Hamburg (Communication of the Folklore Museum in Hamburg), IX
1924
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint.
Rubin, Harry R.
Germans in the Cameroons, 1884-1914: A Case Study in Modern Imperialism
1938
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Schnee, Heinrich (ed.).
Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (German Colonial Encyclopedia),
1920
Scope and Contents note
Photoprints of selected articles.
Skolaster, Hermann.
Die Pallottiner in Kamerun. 25 Jahre Missions-arbeit (The Pallotine Fathers in the Cameroun. Twenty-five Years of Missionary
Work),
1924
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint.
box 16
Tessmann, Gunther.
Die Pangwe, Volkerkundliche Monographie eines West-afrikanischen Negerstammes (The Pangwe Ethnological Monograph of a West
African Tribe),
1913
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with French translation.
"L'abbe Tobie Atangana, l'un des huit premiers pretres camerounais (Abbe Tobie Atangana, One of the First Eight Cameroun Priests),"
Spiritus, 8
1961
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript.
"L'opinion d'un pretre camerounais sur la dot (The Opinion of a Camerounian Priest on the Dowry),"
1953
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten transcript with carbon copy.
"La vie de Ze Mendouga (The Life of Ze Mendouga),"
Esse,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Zenker, G. Yaunde.
Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten (Information from Explorers and Scholars
in the German Protectorates),
1895
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint with English translation.
Zimmermann, Oscar.
Durch Bucsh und Steppe, 1892-1902 (Through Bush and Savannah, 1892-1902),
1909
Scope and Contents note
Photoprint of selected pages with French translation.
Zoa, Abbe Jean.
Pour un nationalisme chretien (For a Christian Nationalism),
1957
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet.
Writings by Quinn
1969-1973, 1980
box 17
"Abbia Stones" and "Eight Beti Songs,"
African Arts, Vol. 4, No. 4
1971
"An African Reaction to World War I: The Beti of Cameroon,"
Cahiers D'Etudes Africaines, XIII
1973
Scope and Contents note
Offprint, two copies.
"The Beti and the Germans (1887-1916),"
Afrika und Ubersee, LVI
1973
Scope and Contents note
Offprint, two copies.
"Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960,"
1970
Scope and Contents note
Quinn's doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. Bound typescript.
"Charles Atangana and Ewondo Chiefs: A Document,"
Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review, 23
1969
Scope and Contents note
Offprint. Introduction by Quinn is in English; document by CHarles Atangana is in French.
"Charles Atangana of Yaounde,"
Journal of Africa History, 21,
1980
Scope and Contents note
Offprint.
Published matter
1973, 1981-1997, 2002
Bois, Pierre. "Le chant de chantefable chez les Evuzok du Sud-Cameroun,"
L'Ethnographie, No. 89 (1)
1983
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Essomba, Joseph-Marie. "Le fer dans le développement des sociétés traditionnelles du Sud Cameroun (Iron and Development in
Traditional Societies in Southern Cameroon),"
Revue ouest africaine d'archeologie (West African Journal of Archaeology), 16
1986
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Fouda, Basile J. "Philosophical Dialogue and the Problem of Evil amongst the Beti (Southern Cameroun),"
Journal of African Religion and Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2
1990
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon
1984
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
"Feeding Yaoundé, Capital of Cameroon," chapter 3 of
Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History
1987
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"The Value of Beti Bridewealth," chapter 5 of
Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities
1995
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Heichler, Lucian. "Into Africa,"
American Diplomacy
2002
Scope and Contents note
Printout from website.
Houseman, Michael. "Social Structure Is Where the Hearth Is: A 'Woman's Place' in Beti Society,"
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 58, No. 1
1988
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Christianisme et ouverture au monde: Le cas du Cameroun, 1845-1915,"
Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, Vol. LXXV, No. 279
1988
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
"Intentions missionnaires et perception africaine: Quelques données Camerounaises,"
Civilisations, Vol. XLI, No. 1-2
1993
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Les seigneurs de la forêt: Essai sur le passé historique, l'organisation sociale et les normes éthiques des anciens Bëti du
Cameroun
1981
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
"Un
tsógó chez les Eton,"
Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 59
1973
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Laburthe-Tolra, Philippe and Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau.
Fang: [exposition, Paris, Musée Dapper, 21 novembre 1991-15 avril 1992]
1991
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
Morgen, Curt von.
A travers le Cameroun du Sud au Nord: Voyages et explorations l'arrière-pays de 1889 à 1891
1982
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of selected pages.
Ngono, Basile. "La représentation de la maladie en Afrique noire: Le cas des Beti du Cameroun,"
Ethique
2002
Scope and Contents note
Printout from website.
Yana, Simon David. "Statuts et rôles féminins au Cameroun: Réalités d'hier, images d'aujourd'hui,"
Politique africaine, 65
1997
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy.
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents note
Includes photocopies of exerpts from unidentified published matter, as well as printouts from websites of biographical statements
of individuals associated with Cameroon.
Photographs
1929-2005, undated
Hubert Onana
undated
Scope and Contents note
Beti headman (
mie dzala) and cocoa planter. Onana knew Charles Atangana and many Beti chiefs of the German and French periods. The stocking cap he
is wearing in some of the photos was a symbol of authority.
Abbé Théodore Tsala
undated
Scope and Contents note
Beti scholar and clergyman who published works on Beti folklore, history, and language.
Scenes from Cameroon
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes depictions of unidentified individuals and buildings.
Photos used for published works
1929, 1950s-1960s, 2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes typed list of descriptions/captions written by Quinn.
box 18
Negatives and miscellany
1968, 1986, undated
microfilm cabinet
MICROFILM SERIES
undated
Scope and Contents note
Microfilm (negative) strips (3 reels and 1 envelope) of handwritten and typewritten archival documents, unpublished writings,
periodical literature, and portions of books in English, French, German, and Ewondo, dealing with African history, and in
part, reproduced in other series of this collection.
tape cabinet
SOUND RECORDINGS
undated
Scope and Contents note
Four sound tape reels of Beti tribal chants.
memorabilia_cabinet
MEMORABILIA
undated
Scope and Contents note
Thin piece of colored market cloth (in expanding folder), portraying standing figure of Charles Atangana, used by the Beti.
photo file
PHOTOGRAPHS
1968, undated
Scope and Contents note
38 prints and 1 postcard. See also: Increment, Photographs (boxes 17-18).
envelope A
3 photos of Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of the Cameroun, with Frederick Quinn; 1 photo of Charles Atangana; 1 photo of Felix
Essomba; 33 photos and 1 postcard depicting everyday scenes in the lives of the inhabitants of the Cameroun
1968, undated
DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS
1938-1954
Scope and Contents note
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfiled, unclassified
government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
box 18
2016 January release of records
1938-1954
Scope and Contents note
Photoprints of documents that originated with the French Colonial administration and U.N. trusteeship, but were apparently
copied in the Cameroun National Archives after Cameroun independence, 1960-1961. These documents originally were in the Chronological
Series.
