Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 9·May–June 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VIII May–June 1939John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 25 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 9 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VIII May–June 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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21:21 (12) (from JFD VII, p.139.) (57)

24.5.39 Dig below 7.25, and find the 7.30 floor. It is of very firm clay in places, of chavara in others. A circular post in the S. is flush with this floor. Photo Bam. 39.219 at 8.30 Remove the red clay. It goes to the plaster of the 7.30 floor. In the E. it slopes down into the well. Photo Bam. 39.220 with clay removed Dig below 7.30 floor, finding the 7.42 floor, also of chavara plaster. In the south there is some red clay here, running under the plaster.

25.5.39 Remove the 7.42 floor, finding chavara in places coated with clay at 7.46 . Both this and the 7.30 levels run under the S + W walls. The 7.25 level stopped in the east at a raised ledge of rock.

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

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