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:
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“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)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)