Early 20th century AD. A manuscript in bamboo with approximately twenty columns of engraved text in Batak script blackened with lampblack, a drawing of a man and a snake; a chain running through the centre of the bamboo section. See Sibeth, A., The Batak, 1991, p.100.134 grams, 15.5cm (6"). Ex central London gallery; acquired on the UK art market. Such bamboo manuscripts are often considered to be traditional laments; some are found to be 'threatening letters'. [No Reserve]