Geurtjens, H. - Uit Een Vreemde Wereld, Of: Het Leven En Streven Der Inlanders Op De Kei Eilanden. [eerste Druk; First Edition].

's-Hertogenbosch, Teulings Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1921. Square 8°, original publ. cloth, covertitle printed within a black narrow line-border. (xii), 398pp. Captioned black/white plates and illustrations in text, some diagrams in text, some figures in text, concise explanatory glossary of local terms used, table of contents, preface. WITH a 12-line A-5 sized original letter in ms. in ink with author;s signature and printed letterhead, directed to a fellow missionary, in which he [Geurtjens] inquires after the health of receiepient; original printed In Memorian Card to father Geurtjens, a postcard with coloured portrait of father Geurtjens; a press cutting with portrait of father Geurtjens tipped-in on verso of french title; two other illustrated fairly large press cuttings illustrating two men of Kei Island at very end and a tiny original photograph, 55x30mm., featuring an image of an Ancestor statue from Kei, loosely inserted. Dutch language cultural anthropological survey of the so-called KeiIsland Group, Banda Sea, The Moluccas by a dutch Roman-Catholic missionary who worked on Kei, in which, besides an account of missionary progress, still valuable information is supplied, e.g. physical geography and population, culture, life-cycle, birth, marriage & divorce, kinship relations (Pela), religious beliefs and cosmology, ceremonies, the High God, supernatural and superstition. initiation rites, healt, healtcare and local medicine, means of birth control, local societies, tribes and politics, means of subsistence, bodily ornamentation (jewelry), taboo and taboo signs, local political systems & administration. Illustrations featuring different types of population, archtecture, ethnography, traditional weavings and ethnographica.Very good copy. Rare.