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Historical Archives Collection

Morija Museum & Archives  |  Published on September 2nd, 2012

The Morija Archives contain tens of thousands of documents dating from the 1820s until the current time, focusing largely on Lesotho/the Basotho. These documents cover a very wide range of topics, and researchers from many disciplines have located valuable information here. A very few are selected here.

Lifela tsa Sione

Lifela tsa Sione

Lifela tsa Sione (The Hymns of Zion): An early edition of the hymnbook of the Protestant Church in Lesotho which is probably the most widely …

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Narrative of an Exploratory Tour

Narrative of an Exploratory Tour

Narrative of an Exploratory Tour (T. Arbousset, based upon his journey of 1836 through much of what is now Lesotho and the Free State): Contains …

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Gazetteer

Gazetteer for Basutoland

Gazetteer for Basutoland: An invaluable reference work for geographical place names (with longitude and latitude) of Lesotho, the Free State and adjacent areas of South …

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Drawing of Eugene Casalis

Drawing of Eugene Casalis

Drawing of Eugene Casalis (Mahloana-Mats’oana), the advisor and friend of Moshoeshoe, as a young man in France before setting out for Southern Africa. He served …

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Leselinyana

Leselinyana Newspaper

Leselinyana newspaper, dated February 1878, with a letter from Asser Sehahabane, a Mosotho evangelist who was then working to establish a mission in Bonyai (Zimbabwe). …

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Baptismal Register

Baptismal Register

Baptismal Register for Thaba-Bosiu Parish, recording the baptism of the famous prophetess Anna Mantsopa (Manshupa) #349 on 13 March 1870, the day that Moshoeshoe was …

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Map 1837

1837 Map

Map of the Thaba-Bosiu and Morija areas in 1836, as shown in the 1837 volume of Journal des Missions, the regular publication of the Partis …

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Livre d'Or

Livre d’Or

Livre d’Or (The Golden Book, 1912), a large collection of essays and photographs published in Paris to commemorate the 75th Jubilee of the work of …

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George Tlali

George Tlali Moshesh

George Tlali Moshesh, copy of his own written accounts of Lesotho history in 1858, which he composed for Sir George Grey while studying as a …

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Mehlaea Malimo (The Times of the Cannibals)

Mehla ea Malimo cover

Front cover of Mehla ea Malimo (The Times of the Cannibals, 1912), by E. Motsamai, a collection of first-hand accounts of those who survived the …

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Basutoland National Council 1910

1910 Debates of the Basutoland National Council

Debates of the Basutoland National Council, 1910, with specific reference to the terms and safeguards requested of Great Britain …

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Drawing of Joshua Nau Makoanyane

Drawing of Joshua Nau Makoanyane

Drawing of Joshua Nau Makoanyane, Moshoeshoe’s close friend and military commander, made in 1845 by François Maeder. Maeder’s drawings are among the first images that …

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Leeto La Mokreste

Leeto la Mokreste (Pilgrim’s Progress)

Leeto la Mokreste (Pilgrim’s Progress), translated into Sesotho by Adolphe Mabille and published in 1872. This classic Christian text is said to have been one …

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