Scribe writing on palm-leaf manuscripts with a bodkin, India, 18th century. He holds a dried leaf in one hand and writes with the other hand. Indien ecrivant sur les olles. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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