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Object Number
60-42-70/10875.1.2
Display Title
Studio portrait of man
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Java / 60-42" Printed on photograph: "A. Zeese & Co Chi / Copyright 1893 by Place & Cooper / Sooreende. (Javanese.) / The mild and kindly face of this man and that of Toajong, the Soendanese javan girl, gave a fair idea of the countenances of these interesting people from / Java Village, where their dignified and courteous bearing charmed all visitors. Sooreende, who was a carpenter and also a tiller of the soil, came from the west / of the beautiful island. These people are nominally Mahometans; but the great mass of the population are believers in rather primitive animisim of their ance / and in the essence of their creed they are little removed from their ruder brethren, the Dayaks of Borneo and Battaks of Sumatra. The early Hindu conquerors of / left many remarkable objects of interest (continued in remarks)
Department
Photographic
Date
1893
Culture
- Javanese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Indonesia
/
Java
Dimensions
Overall: 34.2901 × 24.13 cm (13 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
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