Niels Alexander Douwes Dekker
Born in 1911, Niels Alexander Douwes Dekker was a great-grandnephew
of Multatuli (Edward Douwes Dekker), author of Max Havelaar—the classic
novel of life in the colonial East Indies. Niels Douwes Dekker was a professional
photographer, artist, filmmaker, essayist, and public relations specialist,
and also served as the head of the Netherlands East Indies Visual Information
Service. The Niels Alexander Douwes Dekker Collection offers a unique
visual and textual resource for researching the people and events in the
Netherlands East Indies during the final decades of colonial rule. The
collection's treasures include over 8,000 photographs illustrating indigenous
folkways and rituals, as well as political events surrounding Indonesia's
revolution. The photographs on display here are from Bali, apparently
taken in the late 1940s.
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