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Subject(s)

• Batak language—Texts [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. John F. Mason Collection of Batak Manuscripts (1700-1800). [Browse]

Summary note

Six bamboo tubes, open on one end and with a node at the other end. The nodes have holes in which pieces of string made from the black fibre of the sugar-palm are fastened. The six strings are knotted together. PB 19. 40.5 x 6 cm. Southern ta. Divination: hatiha. PB 20. 30 x 5 cm. Southern ta. Divination calendar: porhalaan and divination tableshatiha. PB 21. 28.5 x 5.5 cm. Southern ta.Divination: rasiyan and an incantation over apagar. PB 22. 21 x 5 cm. A careless copy of a divination calendar: porhalaan. PB 23. 32.5 x 4.5 cm. Southern ta. Divination: ruji. PB 24. 24 x 6 cm. A careless copy of a divination calendar: porhalaan.

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OCLC

1437718912

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