Author: SCHEFOLD, R.,
Title: Speelgoed voor de Zielen. Kunst en Cultuur van de Mentawei-eilanden. [Exhibition Museum Nusantara, Delft/Museum Rietberg/Zürich]. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Delft, Museum Nusantara, 1979. Square 8°., original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 147pp. Numerous black/white and coloured illustrations in text and full page, figures and diagrams in text, double page illustration of a Mentawei house in detail, diagrams illustrating house construction, full page sketch map of the region, extensive expert description of objects exhibited, bibliography, table of contents. Dutch language survey of traditional arts and crafts of Mentawei Island Group, off the Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. With expert general text and description of objects exhibited, e.g. ancestral woodcarvings, religion and cosmology, customs and traditions, small weapons (bows and arrows), braiding and plaiting, household, fishing and hunting implements, craftsmen at work, local traditional architecture, means of subsistence, etc. Fine copy. (name in corner of ti.-p.).

Keywords: mentawei sumatra anthropolgy ethnology religion ancestors ancestry subsistence implements arms weapons culture heritage paganism worship kinship society relations marriage childbirth indonesia southea