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 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)
“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)
“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)