Inscribed Glass Charm Or Amulet 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Feb 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward Lovett
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ONE OF A SERIES OF PRESSED GLASS CHARMS, MADE FOR TRADE WITH THE NATIVES. MADE OF TRANSPARENT SLIGHTLY MILKY GLASS, RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE WITH ROUNDED ENDS, (REFER TO CAT. NO. 204,753 FOR ANOTHER OF THE SAME SHAPE.) EACH SIDE IS IMPRESSED WITH SCRIPT-LIKE FIGURES. THAT ON THE GILDED SIDE READS IN ARABIC AS FOLLOWS: "BISMI 'LLAH 'R-RAHAMI 'R-RAHIM" - IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MERCIFUL AND COMPASSIONATE. ON THE OTHER SIDE, BESIDES THE MADE IN AUSTRIA, THE SCRIPT-LIKE LETTERS OR FIGURE DO NOT HAVE ANY INTELLIGIBLE MEANING. IN THEIR INCOMPLETE OR QUESTIONABLE FORM, THEY MIGHT MEAN "NICKNAMES" OR "PEEVISH" NEITHER OF WHICH MAKE SENSE. (LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION BY DAVID RAY, LIBRARY). THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF PRESSED GLASS OBJECTS MADE IN IMITATION OF CERTAIN NATIVE FORMS, FOR USE IN TRADE, MADE BY L. A. SACHSE & CO. OF GABLONZ, N. BOHEMIA, THEN AUSTRIA, LATER PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE OTHER ONE, OF BLUE COLOR, SUPPOSEDLY ON THIS NUMBER, WHEN CATALOGED, WAS NOT PRESENT AUG. 1959, WHEN THESE CARDS WERE REMADE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kalimantan (not certain) / Borneo, Indonesia / Malaysia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036162
label: USNM Number
content: E204757-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Amulet