Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8·March–May 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 89 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 181Scan 89 of 94

10-5-3921:13a (from p.177)

Photo Bam. gravel 39.154 of 13a, showing gravelly earth removed in 13a. Clear all of 13a, to a firm, gritty level at 8.20. 13a_2 has been cleared to firm, rather uneven red-brown earth with white grits at 8.29. Some large stones in the N-E angle of 21:13 cut the 8.29 level as also the earth above it. Photos Bam. M_1 39.154 \1580 M_2 of 13a, at 8.20, 13a_2 at 8.09, 13a_3 at 8.29, + 13c at 8.03. Start to dig below 8.03 in 13c, cutting light brown firm clay, and finding very hard pale brown clay with light green grits at

11-5-39 The pavement is found at 8.01 in 21:13c. It appears to be broken, and reappears at 8.13 in 13a_2 south. The layers of mud over the floors continue over the break. In the south it continues into 13a_1, though it is cut there in the center. Under the line of stones west of wall III the earth at 8.09 changes to still firmer clay with many white particles. The white floor of 13b is found at the west side of (to J.F.D. VIII, p. 21)

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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