Author: KOOY-VAN ZEGGELEN, M.C. [1870-1957],
Title: De Gouden Kris. Author's preface, introduction by C. van Vollenhoven. Tweede druk [Second edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, [..], 1919. Small 8°, Original cloth. Covertitle in gilded type with a gilded ornamental device at tail, printed within a gilded typographical line-border, gilded title on spine. Hftitle (with a printed dedication to Mevrouw Nellie[Van Kol-Porrey]. 315pp., frontisp. (portr. of La Ballo, a buginese boy from noble ancestry), 9 captioned monochrome plates feauring 2 high ranking buginese women in customary dress, some buginese houses and buginese weapons, table of contents. BUUR I.J., 0237. Dutch language Juvenile, in which a picture is painted of the Buginese noble class society after the end of the war against Bone, South Sulawesi, at the end of the 19th century, told to dutch elder children, after author's authentic experiences as the wife of a dutch Army lieutenant, which includes the story of a golder Keris Pusaka, buginese cultural heritage and customary law, the oppression of the common buginese population by the dutch. Very good copy of the second edition.

Keywords: buginese society sulawesi celebes juvenalia juvenile story oppression colonialism nobility culture heritage legacy adat customs tradition colonialism indonesia southeastasia buur