- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Book of fairy tales - Nedzumi no Yometri (The mouse's wedding).
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Sydney Douglas Burrows
- PRM source Mrs M.O. Burrows
- PRM source Mrs Gordon Canning
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Crêpe Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 155 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.53.102
- Research and responses
According to Dr M. O’Hanlon, A.R.M. probably stands for Assistant Resident Magistrate. [CW 23/2/2000] Confirmed by Sylvia Schaffarczyk, a PhD student from the Australian National University, in September 2004 during a visit to research collections made by Australian colonial administrators in Papua New Guinea. [ZM 3/9/2004]
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