Board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1909
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A school board on which the Panditas or Priests learn to read. Only a few men read and these are almost all priests."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Annabel Gallop, The British Library: Writing board. In Arabic. Long dark wooden board, with tapered top. 20 lines of text in black ink. Lines 1-3: the Arabic alphabet; lines 4-11: unidentified text; lines 12-20: Qur'anic text, commencing with basmalah, with floral markers between verses; doodles at end. References: Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Islamic Manuscripts from the Philippines in U.S. Collections: a preliminary listing, including two printed Qur'ans." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/bibliography/bibliography13.shtml . Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Qur'an Manuscripts from Mindanao in U.S. Collections." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/essays/essay2011a-1.shtml .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mindanao, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moro
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050914
label: USNM Number
content: E257715-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Koranic Writing Board