collection of Harley Harris Bartlett by Uli Kozok The two Karo Batak laments discussed below are part of the collection of Harley Harris Bartlett (1886-1960), a professor of botany at the University of Michigan from 1915 until 1955. Bartlett acted as the chairman of the Botany Department from 1922-47, and as Director of the Botanical Garden from 1919 until his retirement. In 1918 he conducted fieldwork with the U.S. Rubber Company in Sumatra, which was aimed at developing high-yield strains of rubber. He became acquainted with the inhabitants of the regions and developed an interest in their language and culture. He returned to Sumatra in 1927 where he continued collecting plants – some of them, including the Pentaphragma bartlettii Merr., were named after him – and ethnographica that are now part of the Bartlett collections of the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit (Wisconsin), and the Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor. Bartlett was a scholar with a strong inte...
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