'A love song'. 4 photographs, black and white, of a bamboo cylinder of one internode, decorated at the ends.

Reference No:: U DJA/2/144
Dates:: late 20th cent.
Description:: The photographs are 16 x 12 cm. Dr. Voorhoeve writes: "This is almost certainly Museum of Mankind + 1935. It is now broken in three pieces. I read the English inscription: ... Forbes. Passemah Lebar, May 1881. In the r ncong script, the first word, 'aduh' (= alas!) is legible." See M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain: addenda et corrigenda', BSOAS, vol.45, pt.2, 1982, p.320. Here it is added: "Pave (?), Pasemah, foot of Dempo. Height 14.7 cm. Collected by H.O. Forbes, presented by A.W. Franks, December 1883." Compare H.O. Forbes, 'A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago: a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883', Sampson Low, London, 1885.
Format:: Archive Item
Extent:: 4 items
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Access Conditions:: Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)