J.D. Hooker's expenses in Sikkim - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99495 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 145.01 THYMELAEACEAE Daphne sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | J.D. Hooker's expenses in Sikkim | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | J.D. Hooker's expenses in Sikkim | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | J.D. Hooker's expenses in SikkimUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Extra-large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hooker, Sir JD | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1849 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Previously thought to be a permit allowing Hooker to travel in Sikkim (Hooker's passport) but the Lepcha text covers Hooker's transactions from 15 December 1848 to 19 January 1849 while Hooker was travelling from a 11,000-foot pass over the Singalila ridg, e on the Nepal-Sikkim frontier back to his base at Darjeeling, with his party of 19, including a small Nepalese military escort under a havildar; it is a statement of accounts in East India Company rupees. The document also sheds light on the status of Le, pcha as a written language in the middle of the 19th century, and on Lepcha orthography at that time, and, indirectly, on the phonology of the Lepcha language See - R.K. Sprigg (1983), Hooker's expenses in Sikkim: an early Lepcha text. Bulletin of the Sc, hool of Oriental and African Studies 46(02):305-325. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0007885X. A translation of the accounts is given in the Appendix. x0Dx0Ax0Dx0A | ||||