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

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

interesting websites

De collectie op de website van volkenkundig Nederland

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Inuit summer tent.

East Greenland

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

Flute

Tibet and Nepal

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

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.