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Creator: Gaye, Khalilou

Contributing Institutions: Archives Nationales du Senegal; Maria Grosz-Ngate; Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University

Description: This set of documents from a file titled "Inheritance of Bou Kounta 1914-1915" lists the estate of Buh Kunta inventoried and valued after his death in 1914. It includes properties in Saint-Louis, Rufisque, Dakar, Tivaouane, and Ndiassane; animals (including oxen and cows, donkeys, camels, horses, goats); cash; and rental income.  One document specifies the division of the inheritance; another one indicates that Buh Kunta's three eldest sons - Bekaye Kunta, Abdurahmane Kunta & Sidy Lamin Kunta - agree to pay the workers assisting with the settlement 3% of what is left of the estate.

Date: March 27, 1915

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Location: Ndiassane, Thies, Senegal

Format: Text/jpeg

Language: French

Rights Management: For educational use only.

Digitizer: Maria Grosz-Ngate; MATRIX

Archive: Archives Nationales du Sénégal

Source: Archives Nationales du Senegal, dossier 041;documents dated March 26 & 27, 1915; April 1 & 7, 1915