LPA210.045.00
Collection including "Song of the Husband", or the Husband folio
Contents of a rural household and single preservative vat. Collection includes:
LPA210.045.14 Loose pages of seemingly abstract sketches, or (as Prof. Homer has suggested) drawings of a dust storm.
LPA210.045.2 Folio of diary-like fragments; generally day-to-day notes, lists of tasks. A rudimentary (and inaccurate) polylunar calendar is pasted onto the rear side of the folio with sap. Other untranslated passages are possibly coded or written in a language of the author’s invention.
LPA210.045.36a-f Fragments of weather-worn clay vessels (unpreserved).
LPA210.045.42 The so-called Husband folio, named for its likely author and primary feature: the score of a musical composition in three parts referred to by researchers as the “Song of the Husband”. The piece is for an unspecified ensemble and two lead voices. The complete score is bookended by some preliminary sketches, as well as longer texts featuring passages which recur in the lyrical material.
Many aspects of the composition (its subversive musical structure, the significance of the piece’s plot, the identity of its two narrative voices, and the question of any presence of biography in the piece) are widely debated within the LPRU. The longest piece of scholarship to date on the folio was written by Kiran Leonard, who in 2017 arranged the piece in collaboration with researchers for Western Earth instruments. Excerpts from his essay “Unwritten Virtues” can be found here; information on the LP/cassette release of the recording can be found in the 'Additional materials' section at the bottom of this page.
LPA210.045.63a-d Small jointed children’s figurines, found exposed and unpreserved (but largely intact) in westernmost building.
LPA210.045.68 Large farming tool.
LPA210.045.73 A small vial of burnt timber ashes and topsoil, found alongside the clay vessels.
LPA210.045.9 Item of ‘maternal clothing’; identified as such (not without controversy) for the brilliant circles adorning the fabric, often associated with children and birth. See also LPA155.031.29.
LPA210.045.93a-h An assortment of pebble bracelets of various sizes.