Contents

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• Preface (HTML | PDF)
• Note on the authors
• Acknowledgements
  
• PART ONE CONTEXT
• Chapter 1 The Verre ( HTML | PDF)
  
• Chapter 2 Documenting the early colonial assemblage - 1900s to 1910s ( HTML | PDF)
• Chapter 3 Documenting the early post-colonial assemblage - 1960s to 1970s ( HTML | PDF)
• Interleaf 'Brass Work of Adamawa': a display cabinet in the Jos Museum - 1967 ( HTML | PDF)

PART TWO ARTS

• Chapter 4 Brass skeuomorphs: thinking about originals and copies ( HTML | PDF)
• Chapter 5 Towards a catalogue raisonnée
• 5.1 Percussion ( HTML | PDF)
• 5.2 Personal Ornaments ( HTML | PDF)
• 5.3 Initiation helmets and crooks ( HTML | PDF)
• 5.4 Hoes and daggers ( HTML | PDF)
• 5.5 Prestige skeuomorphs ( HTML | PDF)
• 5.6 Anthropomorphic figures ( HTML | PDF)
• Chapter 6 Conclusion: late works - Verre brasscasting in context ( HTML | PDF)

APPENDICES

• Appendix 1 The Verre collection in the Jos and Lagos Museums in Nigeria ( HTML | PDF)
• Appendix 2 Chappel's Verre vendors ( HTML | PDF)
• Appendix 3 A glossary of Verre terms for objects, their uses and descriptions ( HTML | PDF)
• Appendix 4 Leo Frobenius's unpublished Verre ethnological notes and part inventory ( HTML | PDF)
• Bibliography ( HTML | PDF)
  
• Links to bibliographic RIS files are here.

Volume 6 2020

• Enjeux Et Difficultes Du Patrimoine Naturel Et Culturel Camerounais : Cas Des Regions Du Centre, Du Sud Et De L’est (Sud-Cameroun forestier) par Bienvenu Cyrille BELA pp. 1-21
  
• Professor Bernard Fonlon: Testimony/Perspectives from Canada An Interview with Prof. Fernando Lambert by Dr. Gilbert Shang Ndi pp. 22-28
  
• Professor Bernard Fonlon : Un Témoignage du Canada Professeur Fernando Lambert interviewé par Dr. Gilbert Shang Ndi pp. 29-35
  
• The Colonial Lagos Boy in the Ibadan Archives: a Review of the Structural Context by Tunde Decker pp. 36-47
  
• A Contextual Analysis of Sacred Qādiriyyah Sufi Paintings in Kano, Nigeria by Nadir A. Nasidi pp. 48-63

Volume 5 2019

• A Digitized edition of Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review. Vestige Editors’ introduction
• Bernard Fonlon and Abbia: an Introduction by Loreto Todd pp. 1-4

Link to the online edition of Abbia

• La Formation dans les métiers de l’information documentaire en Afrique : état des lieux par Narcisse EKONGOLO MAKAKE pp. 5-26
• Probing inter-ethnic relations between Cameroon-Nigeria: the case of Menchum Division, 1922 to 1961 by Eric Kangha CHU pp. 27-41
• Patrimoine Militaire et Archives d’un Ancien Combattant Camerounais de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (1939-1945) Par Guider KARI MOUSSA pp. 42-56

Vestiges Biographical Sketch Series

• Eldridge Mohammadou. Vestiges Biographical Sketch Series 2 (Version Francais) par Hamadou Adama with Thierno Mouctar Bah and Christian Seignobos pp. 57-62
• Eldridge Mohammadou. Vestiges Biographical Sketch Series 2 (English version) by Hamadou Adama with Thierno Mouctar Bah and Christian Seignobos pp. 63-68

Volume 4 2018

• A summary of Cameroonian Administrative history by David Zeitlyn
  Data appendix for this paper in ORA-data repository
• 'Through a Glass Darkly': Some Thoughts on the Portrait and the Problematics of Meaning by Graham Clarke
• Les Monuments Historiques «Oubliés» du Departement du Logone et Chari Dans La Region de L’extreme-Nord (Cameroun) by Mahamat Abba Ousman
• Les monuments du Cameroun : des « archives endormies »... by Narcisse Ekongolo Makake

Vestiges Biographical Sketch Series

• Lagos Women in Colonial History: a biographical sketch of Alimotu Pelewura. Vestiges Biographical Sketch Series Sketch 1 by Halimat T. Somotan

Volume 3 2017

Letters and Notes on Liberia, 1828–1834 by John Saillant

A Small Part of Which Empire?: Swaziland’s Combatants in the First World War, 1914- 1918 by Estella Musiiwa

The Cameroon Press Photo Archive (CPPA) Buea in Crisis 1955-2016 by Solomon Kekeisen Nsah

Patrimoine archéologique du site de Moutourwa-Badjava à l’Extrême-Nord Cameroun by Denis Bienvenu Nizésété, Danga André le Roi Sakafoulsou

Volume 2 2016

• Engaging With Colonial Archives: Reflections Of An End-User by Ayodeji Olukoju
• The 1828 Deed for Liberian Territory, Unvarnished: A Holding of the Library of Congress by John Daniel Saillant
• La Collection Fè Mboum du Musée de Ngan-Ha dans L’Adamaoua au Cameroun. Materiau Pour L’histoire des Mboum et Problematique de sa Conservation et Valorisation by Denis Bienvenu Nizésété
• Prostitution in Colonial Lagos and Accra: Evidence from the National Archives Buea, Cameroon, c.1930s-1950s by Walter Gam Nkwi

Volume 1 2015

• Vestiges Journal Opening call by David Zeitlyn, Hamadou Adama, Willibroad Dze-Ngwa
• Les manuscrits arabes et ajami au Cameroun: état des lieux et approche codicologique by Hamadou Adama
• Étude des vestiges ligneux et leur apport à la connaissance de la dynamique de la flore et de l’architecture ancienne grassfields à l’Ouest -Cameroun by Bienvenu Denis Nizesete
• A Tripartite Frontier: Funding the Church of the Nazarene Medical Mission, 1911- 1939 by Bonsile Rachel Ndlangamandla

Initial Workshop Reports April 2013

• Report on Workshop 10 April 2013 in Yaounde by Willibroad Dze-Ngwa
• RAPPORT DU SEMINAIRE DU 10 AVRIL 2013 A YAOUNDE by Bienvenu Denis Nizésété, Heumen Tchana Hugues, Mahamat Abba Ousman

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