'A myth of origin'. Romanized transliteration by P. Voorhoeve, January 1968, 12ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/18).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/127
Dates:
Jan 1968
Description:
The original manuscript consists of 64 bamboo strips, called gelumpai, incised in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay (L.Or.5447). The manuscript is described as 'bought from Prof. Niemann, 1906', so perhaps from the estate of G.K. Niemann, 1832-1905. The text begins by enumerating the time before the sun and moon existed, and ends with an enumeration of 17 categories of creation, such as bones, seas, islands.
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)