Yancouba Seydi Manuscript Collection

 
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/37527

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    Images of manuscript owner Yancouba Seydi and the community of Diatouma, Sedhiou, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in October 2018.

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