Author: SCHNITGER, F.M.
Title: Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra. [First edition].
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1939. orig.cloth, (xi), 228pp. Front., illustration on a plate, sketch-maps, drawings in text & 40 plates (I-XL) o.o.t. With contributions by C. von Führer-Haimendorf & G.L. Tichelman. It tells something about Hindoo antiquities, continues with the megaliths of Nias and Samosir and ends with prehistoric monuments. Here and there it touches on legends, folk tales and ethnological details.. (cf preface). (upper cover somewh. soiled.)

Keywords: art/antiquities/sumatra