Palm Leaf Manuscript with Telugu Religious Text
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Palm Leaf Manuscript inscribed with traditional religious text in Telugu. This script was used as a prop for an itinerant fortune teller doing divination in rural villages in Andhra Pradesh, South India, in the early 1970s, total 80 pages, size W 40 cm (16 in.) x D 4 cm (1.7in.), Lot 161-182 Provenance: Property of Bruce Elliot Tapper, a social anthropologist, journalist, writer, and editor. He was an editor at the Smithsonian Associates Program in the early 1980s and then had a career as an editor at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Preview from Oct. 2nd to 6th from 1:00 PM TO 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Location: 15229 Display Court, Rockville MD 20850.
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Palm Leaf Manuscript with Telugu Religious Text
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