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DDS Photographs, Negatives, Postcards and Picture-Series No. 10

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Name of the Collection Devahuti and Damodar Singhal collection
Folder/Categories Photographs, Negatives, Postcards and Picture-Series, 1966-1988
Sub-folder/Sub-category Photographs, 1957-1988
File No. /Acc. No. 10
Abstract Devahuti and Damodar P. Singhal’s visit to Indonesia. Includes photographs of artifacts housed in the Jakarta Museum such as rings resembling the Limbang hoard rings (from Brunei Bay), Saiva statuary, the Yupa Inscriptions and photographs of the Reog performance with Sundanese Gamelan music of Indonesia. Also include photographs of East Kalimantan province, including remains of a Shiva statue, a trisula and other artefacts in the Mulawarman Museum and the Royal Cemetery in Tenggarrong, the Mahakam River, Kuin Uttara (the grave of the first Muslim sultan of Banjarmasin), the cemetery at Mertapura, artefacts from the Lambung Mangkurat Museum and other photographs from South Kalimantan.
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Keywords Indonesia; Jakarta Museum; Brunei Bay; Saiva; Shiva; Yupa Inscription; Reog performance; Sundanese Gamelan music; East Kalimantan; Trisula; Mulawarman Museum; Royal Cemetery; Tenggarrong; Mahakam river; Kuin Uttaral; Sultan; Banjarmasin; Mertapura; Lambung Mangkurat Museum; South Kalimantan; Artefact
Start Date “Period From” May 1905
End Date “Period To” May 1905
Extent 120 p.
Item type/Format Black & White, Colour
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Remarks 57 duplicates
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Donor Veena Sachdev (Devahuti Damodar Svaraj Trust)
Donation Date March 2018
Custodian Ashoka Archives of Contemporary India, Ashoka University, Sonepat (India)
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