Letter informing recipient that sent by ship are the filling cases from Ceylon with devil dancing masks and other curios. Author's name difficult to read.
Letter in regards to curios sent fom Ceylon.
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Hart's Museum Visitor Books
Mat weaving from guinea-corn stems, Bida
Horniman Museum: Exhibition of Rumanian Folk Art: lantern slides
Sculpture of female dancer in north Bali style, pura dalem
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