Finding aid to the Vernon Anderson papers, 1921-1980

Container list

General information and correspondence with the donor, Vernon Anderson, 1980 [ Box 1 Folder 1 ]

Correspondence of Vernon Anderson, 1933, 1939-1947, 1955 [ Box 1 Folder 2 ]

Series: Notes on the Baluba of the Lubilanji

Names [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Language [ Box 1  Folder 4 ] Songs [ Box 1  Folder 5 ] Parables [ Box 1  Folder 6 ] Witchcraft [ Box 1  Folder 7 ] Social customs [ Box 1  Folder 8 ] Printed sources [ Box 1  Folder 9 ] Geography [ Box 1  Folder 10 ] Physical features of the Baluba [ Box 1  Folder 11 ] Dances [ Box 1  Folder 12 ] In Tshiluba
Contains one item: a paper on dances written by Pastor Katahunga and Pastor Kayuwa, dd. 22 August, 1935. 1 p. Mimeograph copy.
Marriage customs [ Box 1  Folder 13 ] Birth customs [ Box 1  Folder 14 ] Funeral customs [ Box 1  Folder 15 ] Social organization of the Baluba [ Box 1  Folder 16 ] Native drugs [ Box 1  Folder 17 ] History [ Box 1  Folder 18 ] Includes a paper entitled: History : early days of the Luban Empire; Author unknown, n.d., 7 p. Typescript.

Miscellaneous [ Box 1  Folder 19 ]

A genealogy of the Baluba of the Lubilanji, compiled by Vernon Anderson, dd. 1946. 20 p. Typescript. [ Box 1 Folder 20 ]

Untitled manuscript, by Prosper Denolf Hemptine [ Box 1 Folder 21 ]

Original in Flemish, translated into French by Rev. Joseph Savels for Vernon Anderson. 34 p. Typescript. [In French]

Vernon Anderson's notes on and extracts from Etude ethnographique sur les moeurs et les coutumes des balubas de la region du Lubilashi, by Jean Joseph Weydert, n.d., 39 p. Mimeograph copy. [ Box 1 Folder 22 ]

In French and English
Note: Some of the material in this paper is included in a later work by Weydert entitled, Balubas chez eux, etude ethnographique, Heffingen, 1938.

Apercu general de genealogies sur quelques grandes tribus du kasai, by H. Morlighem, n.d., 41 p. Typescript. [ Box 1 Folder 23 ]

In French

List of Baluba clan totems [ Box 1 Folder 24 ]

Series: Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization

Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1931-32 [ Box 1 Folder 25 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1934 [ Box 1 Folder 26 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1935-36 [ Box 1 Folder 27 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1937 [ Box 1 Folder 28 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1938 [ Box 1 Folder 29 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1939 [ Box 1 Folder 30 ] Field notes on Baluba history, economy, and political and social organization 1940 [ Box 1 Folder 31 ]

Tablet of genealogical notes c. 1936 [ Box 1 Folder 32 ]

Genealogical clan list of the Baluba of the Lubilanji. n.d. [ Box 1 Folder 33 ]

Genealogical clan list of the Baluba of the Lubilanji. n.d. [ Box 1 Folder 34 ]

Genealogical list of the sub-clans of the Ba Kalonji. n.d. [ Box 1 Folder 35 ]

Miscellaneous ethnographic notes, 1941-1944, 1946, n.d. [ Box 1 Folder 36 ]

Series: Paper and articles

Anderson, V. A., Etude sur la sorcellerie dans les milieux indigènes, dd. Bibanga, APCM, December 12, 1945. 4 p. Typescript. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Bongolo, H., A propos des "coutumes indigènes" qui se pratiquent a la cite indigènes de Leopoldville, dd. 6 May 1947. 11 p. Carbon copy of typescript. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Buisseret, A., Trois voies paralleles d'une politique belge au Congo, n.d., 6 p. Photocopy. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Coppens, P., Anticipations Congolaises, Projet d'organisation politique du Congo Belge, dd. April 1956. 16 p. Photocopy. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Gabriel, Fr., Essai d'orientation de l'enseignement et de l'education au Congo. Bruxelles: Librairie Albert Dewit, 1921. Pages missing. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Kabamba, E., La circoncision chez les Baluba, n.d. 6 p. Typescript. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Nzongola, P. R. K., Some Tshiluba proverbs simplified, dd. Luluabourg, January 21, 1952. 5 p. Mimeograph copy. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Sohier, A., Mariage coutumier et mariage religieux , [extrait du resume du rapport de la XVIIeme Semaine missiologie de Louvain. Rythmes du monde No. 3 September-October 1946, pages 82 et suivantes.] [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] 3 p. Mimeograph copy [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Van Bilsen, A. A. J., Un plan de trente ans pour l'emancipation politique de l'Afrique Belge , [extrait des Dossiers de l'Action Sociale Catholique; February 1956] 29 p. Photocopy. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Van Bulck, V., Du Sankuru au Kasai–Du Kasai au Katanga , Le Katanga illustre No. 28 (March 1940), p. 15-18. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ] Waldecker, B., Litterature orale congolaise, Le Congo illustre , n.d., p. 7-9. [ Box 1 Folder 37 ]

Notes and proceedings of the Commission pour la protection des indigènes, 1955-1957 [ Box 2 Folder 38 ]

Newspaper clippings, 1947, n.d. [ Box 2 Folder 39 ]

Miscellany [ Box 2 Folder 40 ]