Winifred Galloway collection.

The collection chiefly comprises the research of Winifred Galloway on The Gambia, including papers, pamphlets, notes, maps, reports and projects. There are numerous maps, including hand-drawn maps of West African kingdoms. There are also personal papers, family photographs and slides, as well as material on Wyoming and indigenous Americans, and video interviews (with transcript) of Winifred Galloway by Barbara Osborne filmed in 2015, together with a digital archive of part of the collection.

Gift ; 2015.

Winifred Faye Galloway, born Torrington, Wyoming September 23, 1938, died November 13, 2015. Received BA in American Studies, University of Wyoming 1961, Fulbright Fellowship to Australia, returning to Wyoming for graduate degree in American Studies, 1962. Served in the Peace Corps Nigeria 1964-1966, teaching secondary school history. Undertook Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington in African history with field research in The Gambia; dissertation: ‘A history of Wuli from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century’, 1974. Helped establish the Historical Gambia Museum, now Gambia Cultural Archives, with B.K. Sidibe. She returned to the US in 1984, later working in Sheridan, Wyoming at Bradford Brinton Museum before retiring in 2013. Among her publications are: James Island: a background with historical notes on Juffure, Albreda, San Domingo and Dog Island (Banjul, Gambia: Oral History and Antiquities Division, 1978); A listing of some Kaabu states and associated areas: signposts towards state-by-state research in Kaabu (Dakar, 1980); The peoples of the Gambia (with BK Sidibe) (Banjul: Oral History Division, 1975), Senegambian traditional families ; Women in traditional Senegambian society, past, present, and future (with BK Sidibe) (Banjul: Gambia Cultural Archives, 1975), Wrestling in the Gambia (with BK Sidibe) (Banjul: Gambia Cultural Archives, 1976), and Sunjata: the story of Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire(with BK Sidibe) (Kanifing, The Gambia: Fulladu Publishers, 2014).