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The collection The Enggano collection in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology) consists of 248 objects. The main part was collected in the nineteenth-century. Only a few objects were added in the twentieth-century. Some of the early collectors, such as C.B.H. Baron von Rosenberg [4] and O.L. Helfrich [5], have also written about Enggano. They offer us some of the scarce sources on nineteenth-century Engganese culture.
The collection contains a variety of objects. It covers daily life as well as ritual life. Some masterpieces are now on display in the permanent exhibition on Indonesia in the museum. | |
