The narration can be considered an oral account in that it is woven from the verbal interactions of everyday people.
However, it was not her original intent to document solely oral accounts.
The Indian tribes who came after only knew of the 'gods' who had once come down from heaven by oral accounts.
Bonding of clans throughout the journey is evident in the oral account.
Therefore, these oral accounts have substance but need corroboration by anthropological and scientific evidence.
To this end, he had made use of letters, journals and considerable oral accounts.
The other Justices either read aloud from a memorandum explaining the case or gave a more casual oral account.
The Pashtuns have oral and written accounts of their family tree.
The missionaries taught Hawaiians and began writing the islands' history, which until then existed only as oral accounts.
Innovative scholarly research since the late 20th century has brought together oral and archival accounts in new histories.