Title: Wedono of Banjaran near Bandung with His Following in Front of His House

Description

• This photograph shows the wedono of Banjaran (a region in present-day West Java near Bandung), in front of his house, with members of his entourage. In Dutch-administered Java, a wedono was a native regional administrator. The photograph was taken by the studio of Woodbury & Page, which was established in 1857 by the British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page. The photograph is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.

Photographer

• Page, James
• Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley) (1834-1885)

Publication Information

• Woodbury & Page, Batavia

Title in Original Language

• Wedono van Bandjaran bij Bandoeng met gevolg voor zijn huis

Place

• Southeast Asia > Indonesia > Jawa Barat > Bandung

Time

• 1850 CE - 1899 CE

Topic

• History & geography > History of Africa > Central Africa & offshore islands

Additional Subjects

• Houses;
• Indigenous administration

Type of Item

• Prints, Photographs

Physical Description

• 15 x 24 centimeters

Institution

• Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies KITLV

External Resource

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/nllekit.2909