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Miondo
SAArchaeological or primary sourceFamily H · Leaf-wrapped grain parcels (separate inventions)
Sources
- APhotograph, original caption 'Miondo (Stockyamswürste) eine Specialität v. Dualafrauen' ('Miondo, a kind of sausage made of cassava, a speciality made by the women of Duala'); photographer Johannes Immanuel Leimenstoll; date 1900-1903; place New Bell, Douala; ref. QE-30.016.0018. (1900-1903). Basel Mission Archives, image QE-30.016.0018, Basel Mission Archives (bmarchives.org)
- A'mondo, my- eine aus Kassada hergestellte Speise (der Kassada-Brei wird wurstartig in Blätter eingewickelt)' (a food made from cassava; the cassava paste is wrapped sausage-like in leaves). Other entries name the shrub whose large leaves and the raffia fibres used 'zum Umwickeln der myondo'. (1914). Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache (Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co., 1914), E. Dinkelacker; Internet Archive scan, OCR text read
Found by research in October 2026; awaiting editorial review.
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History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.
Family H