Referred object · evidence file 16
Transcript of a rhyme
21 May 2007 · The Eastern Marshes · evidence
In store: not on display
- Object number
- NMV/EF/2007/016
- Object type
- Transcript of a rhyme
- Date received
- 21 May 2007
- Place
- The Eastern Marshes
- Materials
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 3 files, 11 leaves
- Department
- Referred objects, held without classification
- Location
- In store: not on display
The record
A child in Reedside recites a rhyme in a language her parents do not know. She says a man in grey taught her at the river. The rhyme has eleven syllables.
Provenance: referred by, or concerning
- The War Ministry (recorder)
- Brigitte Merfeld (witness)
- The Eastern Marshes (location)
Disposition
The item is in the Museum's keeping. The War Ministry has been informed and has not replied in any form the Museum is able to publish. Not on display.
The record is the record. The Museum has no view on what it records.
File 16 of 18. Room 14 remains closed for maintenance.
Other files
| File 1 | 14 October 1819 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 2 | 11 October 1826 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 3 | 18 November 1827 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 4 | 18 June 1842 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 5 | 5 July 1874 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 6 | 12 September 1893 | The peat cutter Hanne Moor pulls a small grey coin from deep water… |
| File 7 | 21 November 1894 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 8 | 12 January 1900 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 9 | 12 September 1904 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 10 | 25 July 1908 | The Marschau Conference's empty chair is found, at the morning… |
| File 11 | 3 March 1911 | One hundred years to the day after the first, a second declaration… |
| File 12 | 29 September 1913 | A coin of the same grey metal as the Room 14 specimen turns up in… |
| File 13 | 16 July 1929 | A sentry on the Reed Line reports lights moving in the marsh to the… |
| File 14 | 21 October 1944 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 15 | 18 April 1993 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |
| File 17 | 31 October 2016 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 18 | 9 September 2021 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |