Carved bamboo

Museum number:
10-1515
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21100001515
Accession number:
Acc.1124
Description:
Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.
Donor:
Harold Colyer Conklin and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mindoro Island, Luzon island group, Philippines
Culture or time period:
Hanunoo
Collector:
Harold Colyer Conklin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
1954
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #103: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (June 11, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carved bamboo, accession number 10-1515, described as Letter written on kawayan type of bamboo; 7 1/8” l.; 2” w. Personal letter; Transl. of 1st sentence: “Friend I send a letter to you”; see acc. env. for transliteration.

Tools