Forgotten Islands
of Indonesia
To Mgr. Andre P.C. Sol msc
Forgotten Islands
of Indonesia
The Art & Culture of
the Southeast Moluccas
Nico de Jonge & Toos van Dijk
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of "Forgotten Islands"
in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands.
© 1995 Periplus Editions (HK) and the authors
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Printed in Singapore
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0946-9 (ebook)
PUBLISHER: Eric Oey
EDITORS: Martijn de Rooi, Thomas G. Oey, Berenice B. Oey
DESIGN: Allard de Rooi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ben Grishaaver, Ave, Leiden
PRODUCTION: Allard de Rooi, T.C. Su, Teresa Tan, Mary Chia
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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
All photographs are made by Ben Grishaaver, with the assistance of Cees van de Wilk, with the exception of: Akerboom, N. msc Photograph 5.4. Dennis Anderson: Photograph 7.5. Archives MLV: Photograph 4.27. Archives Mgr. AP.C. Sol msc: Photographs 1.3, 7.13, 9.4, 9.6. Burger (1923): Photograph 6.7. Toos van Dijk and Wim Wolters: pages 11, 13, 14 and Photographs 2.4, 2.6, 7.14, 8.11, 8.12, 10.3. Drabbe, P. msc: Photographs 5.3, 5.13, 5.16, 6.2, 6.21, 7.9, 8.17. Egging, A. msc: Photographs 6.13, 6.14, 9.2, 9.3. Eigen Haard (1907): Photographs 2.8, 2.9. Geurtjens, P.H.: Photographs 5.9, 6.11. Heekeren, H.R van, The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia (1958): Photograph 1.5. Hoop, AN.J. Th. a Th. van der, Indonesische Siermotieven (1949): Photograph 1.4. Indonesië Reisbibliotheek, Maluku (Periplus Editions, 1990): Photographs 22, 2.3. Jasper and Pirngadie (1912): Photograph 8.8. Jeanson, Br. msc Photograph 6.5. Nico de Jonge: Photographs 1.1, 2.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 7.4, 7.7, 7.8, 10.2. Scott McCue: Photographs 7.2, 7.3. Merton H. (1910): Photographs 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 6.3, 6.6 and Figure 5.4. Kal Muller pages 10, 12 and Photographs 5.14, 5.15. Müller-Wismar, W.: page 2 and Photographs 3.5, 3.6, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.22, 7.12, 8.6, 8.9, 10.4. Riedel (1886): Photograph 2.1 and symbol Chapter II. Hans Visser: Photograph 2.7. Ien de Vries: page 15.
The figures are made by: Peter Homan: Figures 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1 (source: Horridge 1978), 5.2 (source: Mckinnon 1991), 5.3 (source: Barraud 1979), 5.4 (source: Merton 1910), 5.5, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 (source: Bühler 1943). Mechtild Paauwe: Figure 5.6 (source: Geurtjens 1910).
ABBREVIATIONS OF COLLECTIONS
RMV: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands. RJM: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, Germany. TM: Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, MLV: Museum voor Land-en Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. MV-N: Museum voor Volkenkunde, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. MV-w: Museum fur Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria, MNK Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. PC: Private Collection.
Page l. Ancestor statues from Babar, probably representing a mother and child Height 15 cm; length 22 cm (RJM). Pages 2 and 3. Statue of the heavenly deity Lamiaha, in former times situated in the ritual centre of the village of Emroing on Babar. In 1913 the German ethnlogist W. Müller-Wismar collected
