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Nigeria File
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1959 trip to Nigeria

File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.

Akaa village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Akaa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Algada village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Agada. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Analysis of hemoglobin data

File contains notes on medical data relevant to hemoglobin. Includes lists of Sahli percentages and charts comparing averages. Also includes a memo regarding summary data from random village hemoglobin samples.

Apena village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Apena. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ashipa village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ashipa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Awaro village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Awaro. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Data sampling in Abeokuta

File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.

Doctor comments on Yoruba women, sampling design, and plan for analysis

File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.

Effect of culture and cultural patterns

File contains notes on village data, socioeconomic information, and psychiatric symptom statistics. File also includes a letter to Alex (Leighton?) from Ray (?) on the subject of sampling techniques and a further study on the role of physical depletions in the etiology of Yoruba psychiatric disturbances.

Elmira-Yoruba comparisons

File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.

Field work and plateau history : [research notebook]

Item consists of two handwritten research notebooks recorded in blue and green pen by James Morrison in 1973. One notebook has a blue cover and describes observation methodologies, along with dated field entries with mentions of Gyel, Gwon, Vwang, and Fan Indigenous groups of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. The notebook includes a printed and annotated paper written by James Morrison entitled: "Colonial Rule and Tin Mining on the Plateau" folded between the cover and page 1. There is one loose page of handwritten interview notes folded between pages 12 and 13, regarding interview strategy. There is one press clipping on page 39 entitled: "You have misfired!" by Sen Luka Gom. The second notebook has an orange cover and covers the history and comments on the Jos Plateau. The notebook mentions the BuKuru, Gyel, Gwon, and Birom Indigenous groups of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. The notebook contains one press clipping entitled: "Three villagers arrested over farmland rumpus" written by Saidu Balogun and located on page 1. There are three loose pages with notes located on page 5, and four sheets of notes on page 9. There is one press clipping on entitled: " Three gunned down by police in encounter with villagers" located on page 55.

Forum Gwom oral history

File consists of loose leaf handwritten notes related to oral history and field research performed by James Morrison in the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. The file contains one typed questionnaire entitled : 'Yoruba on the Plateau" and is dated July, 1972. The file contains a piece of correspondence in Hausa written by Albert Gwom and James Morrison. The file contains handwritten calendars with dates assigned to Forum, Heipang, Riyom, Vwang, Bachit, Ropp, Du, Gashish, Gyel, Fan, and Kuru. The file contains handwritten questions for interviews with elders, and research notes on Irrigwe origin stories.

General notes and observations from the Jos Plateau

File consists of four handwritten spiral bound notebooks created by James Morrison in the 1970's while attending the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Three notebooks contain general notes from James Morrison's academic life, and one notebook contains oral history notes on Vwang, Ropp, Riyom, Kuru, Hei, Gyel, Ga, For, Fan, Du and Ba.

General notes, tin mining

File consists of a range of notes compiled by James Morrison in the 1970's while he attended University of Ibadan in Nigeria. The file contains a typed draft of "Impact of Tin Mining on the Indigenous Peoples of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1904-1935" and notes and research from secondary sources on tin mining in Nigeria. The file contains minutes from the Nigerian Council of Mines. The file also contains Interview notes with N Perchona K., A. Y. Aliya, J. C. Muller, Barlow Mines Ltd., H. G. Farrant, Charles L. Williams, H. R. Mitchell, Sir Cecil Ames, Mallan Batune Dangyong, John Kadiye, and Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Fagg.

Government documents

File consists of handwritten loose leaf paper compiled and written by James Morrison pertaining to government documents from the Kaduna National Archives, and Ibadan National Archives. File includes a bibliography of primary sources, handwritten compiled lists of items of interest to James Morrison from the national archives. The file contains oral history notes, a list of handwritten questions sent to government agencies and archives, and Birom arrival patterns.

Hausa poem, religion interview questions

File consists of a range of research materials compiled by James Morrison from 1973-1975 in the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. The research materials include an empty envelope addressed to James Morrison at the Department of History at the University of Ibadan. The file contains a photocopied version of a poem written in Hausa, and a series of interview questions about Muslim identity written in blue pen on loose leaf lined paper. The file contains a letter written to James Morrison from Musa Borodo regarding a translation that is attached to the letter. The translation is handwritten on lined loose leaf paper and is followed by the original Hausa in the form of a typed document.

History of Assakio village : [notebook]

File consists of two notebooks James H. Morrison completed on behalf of a colleague researching the Assakio village in Nigeria in 1976. The notebooks feature oral history notes based on interpreter facilitated conversations, observations, interviews, and vocabulary list.

Ijeja Kenta village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ijeja Kenta. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ijeun-Lukosi village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ijeun-Lukosi. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
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