Gallery
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Batak book about the art of divination from a rooster (Robert C. Williams Paper Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
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Batak script carved into a bamboo tube with wooden stopper (Museum of the Tropics in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Bamboo inscribed with Simalungun Batak script (National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands)
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Batak palm leaf book (Museum of the Tropics in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Book of formulas, recipes, and rules applied by Batak priests (Museum of the Tropics in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Magic book used by priests of the Toba Batak tribe (National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands)
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)