Foreword / Lijo Schenk
Preface
Introduction: The Netherlands East Indies, A Colonial History / Susan Legene and Janneke van Dijk
The Netherlands Eastward Bound
-The Resonance of Violence in Collection / Harm Stevens
-Equal and Free: Indonesian Demands in Education and Politics / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
-Enterprises / J. Thomas Lindblad
-Domestic Servants in Colonial Times / Ratna Saptari
-The Javanese and Balinese Dance Theatre as Community Art / Margareta Dorila
-Expeditions, Collections, Science: The Dutch Fascination for the Papuans of New Guinea / David van Duuren
Colonial Collections at the Tropenmuseum
-Ten Collectors, Ten Collections / Susan Legene and Janneke van Dijk
Ten Collectors
The Colonial Civil Servant: Johan Ernst Jasper
The Entrpreneur: Theodore F. A. Delprat
The Missionary: Petrus Vertenten
The Artist: Hendrik Paulides
The Artists Couple: Mr. and Mrs. Quirien A. A. Krijnen and Petronella Maria Helena (Nellie) Krijnen-Surie
The Photographer: Margaretha Mathilde ('Thilly') Weissenborn
The Scientist / Museum Director: Johan Christiaan van Eerde
The Soldier and His Wife: Henri N. A. Swart and Victorina M. G. Stadlmair
The Founder of the Koloniaal Museum: Frederik Willem van Eeden
The Museum Collector: Jaap Kunst
Ten Collections
Wood
Maps
Family Photographs
Films
Clothes
Paintings
The Library Collection
Weapons
Yogya Silver
Models and Miniatures
Colonial Imagination and Reflection
Collective Memory: The Interactions Between Literature, Museums, Cinema, and Photography / Pamela Pattynama
The Arrows Aim: Coloured Comments on Dutch Colonial Drama / Edy Seriese
Notes
References
About the Authors
Index