'Native Authorities', 1923-1954 and n.d.

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folder 1 (fols. 1-170) notes on 'Native Authorities' in Tanganyika Territory (Tanzania) from 1923 to 1952 made by Mrs Ka[bui] for Margery Perham in 1954
folder 2 (fols. 1-66) accounts by R.W. Gordon, Keeper of German Records, of the hunt for German records after the First World War, the consequent digging up of German treasure, the statistics and information on native laws and customs culled by him from German pamphlets and ethnological notes, and his assessment of German civil and criminal jurisdiction there, 1924-1927
folder 3 (fols. 1-15) notes on the installation of Chief Shoka of Uduhe and, by C.J. Bagenal, on the constitution of an Mjiji sultanate and tribal government in the Urema and Kigoma districts, c. 1926
folder 4 (fols. 1-3) lists of chiefs with the numbers of their subjects, c. 1930
folder 5 (fols. 1-15) anonymous notes on the structure of 'Native Authorities' and miscellaneous notes by Margery Perham, n.d.

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MSS. Perham 492

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