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Note: The following text is taken from a 19th-century collection catalog and, in its language and perspective, partially reflects colonial thought patterns. We present the text in its original version to make the collection's history transparent and promote a critical examination of the colonial legacy. Certain terms and formulations may be perceived as problematic today. A 2009 research project concluded that most descriptions are factually correct and still usable; only a few details were found to be inaccurate or incorrect. The results of this project were published in the following collection catalog: khm-wmw-tm-library.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1457155265"697. Buttons - "Kantjing"Fourteen small, very delicately worked silver buttons which are always found on the narrow sleeves of the long ladies' jackets. They are not so much for buttoning up as for decoration on the sleeve. They are also used throughout the entire East Indian Archipelago and are made by the native silversmiths often most artfully."Translation of: Czurda, F. A. J. (1883). Catalog mit Erklärungen der Etnografischen Privatsammlung des Dr. F. A. J. Czurda in Postelberg (Böhmen). (p. 163). Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller