Fashioning Cultural Representations: Pioneer Colonial Explorers and Dutch Borneo's Gentle Headhunters
Images culturelles du Bornéo néerlandais : les gentils chasseurs de têtes et leurs explorateurs coloniaux
Résumé
Abstract: Photographic images of interior Dutch Borneo’s nature and, more par-
ticularly, her peoples and cultures are examined as they were produced and used
around the turn of the twentieth century, from their creation in the context of pioneer
exploration across the island to their presentation and display, in various forms, for
consumption by the general public back in Europe. A young Dutch army medical
officer, later university professor, Anton Nieuwenhuis, a talented Indo military topo-
grapher and photographer, Jean Demmeni, and an elderly Norwegian professional
explorer, Carl Lumholtz: These three major, yet quite different, players of the “there
and then” scene strongly contributed, each in his own way, through the combined
power of their visual and textual testimonies, to the shaping of affirmative representa-
tions, ideas, and imageries among their home public about Borneo and the peoples of
her hinterland, these independent Dayak tribes, which had long been suffering from
prejudiced reports, disrepute, and outright ignominy.
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