Ethnology

Collection

Ethnology

Museon’s first director was one of the first travellers to take photographs of

Surinam (around 1900).

Many are still in Museon’s collection. Thanks to his interest in the former colony it was he who laid the basis for the museum’s cultural anthropology collection, today the fourth of its kind in the

Netherlands

. Besides Surinam, the collection also shows many beautiful pictures taken in countries such as Indonesia, Tibet and Nepal, and of the Ndbele in South Africa and the Inuit in East Greenland.

All subjects

		Moroccan Berber earthenware
		Woodabe
		Indonesian fabrics
		Old Congo
		East Greenland
		The Tobelo of Halmahera
		The Ndebele culture in South Africa
		Baduy from West-Java
		Indo-Javanese
		Surinam
		Tibet and Nepal
		Peru

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Moroccan Berber earthenware

Unglazed Berber earthenware from Morocco’s Rif region.

Vodun statue, 1999

Woodabe

A good picture of the culture of cattle nomads of the Sahel.

Headscarf from Sumatra

Indonesian fabrics

A unique collection that counts about 1100 fabrics.

Fetisj-statue, 19th century

Old Congo

Power figures, dignity rods and ornamental weapons, that belonged belonged to population groups such as the Vili, Cabinda, Yombe and Woyo.

Inuit summer tent.

East Greenland

A good image of the continuity and change of an Arctic culture.

Shield

The Tobelo of Halmahera

Important heritage from the Maluku Islands: fabrics, tree bark cloths, plaited items and weapons.

Garment, 1985

The Ndebele culture in South Africa

The Ndbele collection provides a complete picture of Ndebele culture - a unique collection in the

Netherlands

Baduy fabric

Baduy from West-Java

Garments and cloths with simple patterns with predominantly austere colours, agricultural tools and household goods.

Memorial

Indo-Javanese

Objects from

Indonesia

’s Hindu period.

Diorama by G. Schouten, 1834

Surinam

The largest Surinam collection in the Netherlands. Special items include a kwakwa bangi, a bench/altar used in a Winti ritual and a diorama of G. Schouten from 1834.

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Tibet and Nepal

Himalaya culture illustrated: scroll paintings, bronze, wooden and stone sculptures.

Sandals made from tires.

Peru

Fabrics, ornaments and tools used by the Quechua and Inca.