oral record

The committee praised him for preserving an oral record of tribal history in the tradition of West African griots.

Sea stories, the almost entirely oral record of what was done when and why and by whom, are a parallel universe to the science literature.

While the magazine’s archive has become an invaluable oral record of the art world over the last four decades, Mr. Furlong said it didn’t begin with such ambitions.

There are many histories of Paris which have been handed down by oral record to some of the earliest authors amongst the Gauls, but so ill authenticated that they do not merit repetition, having being reputed as fabulous by most writers to whom credit can be attached.