This material is a Tamil palm-leaf manuscript from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. This palmleaf manuscript written by Civaliṅkam addresses the areas of Magic, sorcery, theurgy. These are practices with a long heritage in Batticaloa as know from the recurring terms for such practices such as mantir...
A compilation of folklore stories and songs recorded by H.M.J. Prawirojuwono. Many of these stories feature the mouse deer eating a certain fruit or vegetable. The deer remains popular in Javanese folklore today, especially in tales told to children. The stories are straightforward--some discus...
This collection runs the gamut from Chinese epics to cookbooks. It covers the administration of several small entrepreneurs, often of Chinese origin. It also contain notebooks from colonial schools for indigenous and Oriental (often Chinese or Arab) students and Chinese schools which were abolis...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Javanese, and Malay
Administration of the Chinese-Indonesian handyman, Lím Giok Sing
Scope & Content:
This series contains the following 8 files: EAP1268/6/5/1: ꦧꦸꦧꦸꦏ EAP1268/6/5/2: Memoriaal EAP1268/6/5/3: [Accounts of an Indo-Chinese Carpenter] EAP1268/6/5/4: [Designs of an Indo-Chinese Carpenter] EAP1268/6/5/5: [Account Book] EAP1268/6/5/6: [Account Book II] EAP1268/6/5/7: 6/9 1939 EA...
Notes on measurements, payments, and designs for furniture, houses and drainage. The Chinese-Indonesian handyman, Lím Giok Sing, to whom these accounts belong, was not only a carpenter but also an engineer of sorts. Among his most striking assignments was one for delivering temple-stones from the...
This collection contains 262 files and 2522 images. NILGIRIS DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (NDC) officially inaugurated by British council Director Mr. Chris Gibson in 2006. This is the only surviving unique collection in this region, and not yet explored by any researchers. 1) Mr. A. Dharmalingam, son o...
This file contains 609 photographs. Extent: The file containing 609 Photographs. Country of Origin: India. Related regions: Tamil Nadu; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Orissa; Uttar Pradesh; Andhra Pradesh; Delhi; Calcutta; Ceylon.
Archivo Histórico del Instituto de Caridad Hermandad de Dolores
Scope & Content:
The "Instituto de Caridad Hermandad de Dolores" ["Institute of Charity Fraternity of Sorrows"], is the oldest institution of private charity in Chile, which has offered free medical services in the city of Santiago since 19th century. It was founded on March 3, 1815, by a group of patriots, impr...
The documents in this series describe the accounts managed by the "Instituto de Caridad Hermandad de Dolores" [Institute of Charity "Fraternity of Sorrows"]. Specifically, they present the inflows and outflows of money in the first half of the 20th century. The first ones indicate all the income...