Author: BIEGER, J.N.,
Title: De Zendingsklok. Een verhaal uit den Zendingsarbeid op Nias. 4th edn.
Description: Oegstgeest, 1921. sm.8°. orig. pict. col. wraps. 48pp. Stapled. Design of wrapper & 2 plates after drawings by [Johan Prins]. BUUR, I.J., 0295 (lists 1st and 2nd. edns. only, 1917/1918). This juvenile story edited by J.N. Bieger, describes the work of 2 dutch missionaries of the Rijnsche Missie, period 1883-1915; in this period the population of S.Nias, and especially those of the village Bawo-Lowalangi, offered much resistance to christianization; the story contains descriptions of the keeping of slaves, the Boro-Nadoe (Priest-King keeper of the local Idol), head-hunting and marriage/death rituals. Scarce. (somewho. dog-eared copy).

Keywords: mission/nias/slavery