Onbekend - Manuscript traditioneel Batak spreukenboek - 1800

Traditional Batak spellbook, consisting of palm leaves bound with cords, written in traditional script (Pustaha). It concerns an authentic handicraft used by a shaman from North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a manuscript without drawings, a secret ritual handbook.
The book has 58 palm-leaf pages, bound with a cord through holes in the middle of the leaf and clamped between wooden boards.
The cords were renewed; only the middle one is still original.