Box 5A-5B

Scope and Contents Includes field notebooks logging daily activities from Towles' study in the DRC, 1970-1972. Loose material consists of research (notes, diagrams) regarding nkumbi initiation ritual with notes on myths, life stages, lineage and kinship, music, environment, rituals, masks, etc. Includes drafts of his nkumbi dissertation with edits by Turnbull. Also includes material on other rituals (such as asa and elima) and Towles' notes and papers comparing the asa and bar mitzvah rituals. Also includes...