The bridge of the dead
This is a short note by R. O. Winstedt and Richard Winstedt, published in the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1951), pp. 145–147.
Summary
The document is a brief contribution (three pages) by the noted Malay scholar R. O. Winstedt, co-authored with his son Richard Winstedt, addressing the subject indicated by the title “The Bridge of the Dead.” The primary source text available for this record consists solely of the title page and publication metadata; no body text is included in the provided excerpt. The note falls within Winstedt’s extensive body of work on Malay language, folklore, and cultural concepts, and the title suggests a discussion of a Malay or regional term or motif associated with death and passage (p. 145).