Author: RENES-BOLDINGH, M.A.M.,
Title: De Olifantennacht. Orig. edn.
Description: Nijkerk, Callenbach, s.d. [..], 1934. Small 8°. Orig. boards, title in bold type and an illustration after a drawing by Sierk Schröder on front boards. 61pp. frontispiece, black/white ills. of which 2 full-page, after drawings by Sier Schröder. BUUR, I.J., 578. A missionary story for dutch school-children, set in Batak-country, being the story of the conversion to christianity of a Batak Rajah and his Datu (priest/sorcerer) by a small christian Batak-boy, after the devastation of rice-fields and a small village by an Elephant-herd. (brown trace of sellotape inside front boards, child's name in ink at upper margin of hftitle, rubber-stamped entrance library-date in upper margin of ti.-p., ow. a good copy).

Keywords: christianization batak juvenile story mission missionary labour conversion rajah datoe datu sumatra colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur