Ten pages of handwritten notes. These notes may have been a draft for a publication on the history of wind instruments.
Notes on tuning wind instruments, by Eric McGavin
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Proposed Music Section North Hall and Carse Room

Statue of female figure, probably a witch’s follower or sisia. Probably from a Pura Dalem in North Bali.

Black and white negative of men working on canoe, sanding and carving at edge of forest
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