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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Numerous people and various institutions have assisted us in the preparation of this book. We are only able to mention a few of them here. First and foremost, we owe our thanks to the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) in Tilburg, particularly to A.P.C. Sol, former bishop of Amboina, who was the stimulator of this project. We also wish to offer our heartfelt thanks for practical assistance and help regarding the contents of this book to the following missionaries of the Congregation: father A. Egging of Merauke, who was a missionary in the Aru islands from 1979 until 1984; father A. Vriens, father A. van de Wouw and father N. Akerboom of Tilburg; and the late father K. Sträter, who worked in the Moluccas from 1946 to 1988.

We would further like to express our special thanks for the assistance given to us by our informants in Ambon and in the Southeast Moluccas, in particular by the people of the Babar islands. Space permits us only to mention the Eipepa, Talle, Lekawael and Lurey families and the local administrators Bp. S. Puimera, Bp. J. Inona and the late Bp. Th. Marer.

Museums in the Netherlands and abroad were most hospitable and helped us to select the objects portrayed. Pieter ter Keurs, curator of the Insular Southeast Asia department of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, rendered us numerous services for which we would like to thank him. We also thank staff members of the following museums for their assistance: Koos van Brakel, Itie van Hout and David van Duuren of the Tropen-museum in Amsterdam; Fer Hoekstra of the Museum voor Volkenkunde in Nijmegen; Anneke Veldhuizen-Djajasoebrata and Sietske Kenti of the Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde in Rotterdam; and Pim Westerkamp of the Museum Nusantara in Delft.

Gisela Volger, Jutta Engelhard and Brigitte Khan Majlis, of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum fur Volkerkunde in Cologne, supported us enthusiastically. We thank Clara Wilpert of the Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde for her help concerning W. Müller-Wismar's material.

We are grateful to Herman de Vries for his helpfulness, in particular for allowing us to photograph objects from his collection. In this respect we also thank Frank Wiggers, Bruce Carpenter, Cherry P. Brown and Alfred C. Glassell of the USA. The splendid photographs were delivered in good time, thanks to the marvellous cooperation of photographer, Ben Grishaaver, and his assistant, Cees van de Wilk.

A special word of thanks goes to designer Allard de Rooi. His enormous efforts and enthusiasm have played a great part in the preparation of this book. We thank Peter Homan for drawing the figures, Martijn de Rooi for editing the Dutch text and Jacqueline Meijer and Tony Burrett for translating the text into English. We are grateful to Fenny Hoekstra, Jacqueline Leyen, Wim van Dijk, Marianne van Vuuren, Maggie de Moor and Klaas de Jonge for their comments on an earlier version of the text.

Finally, we owe thanks to our families, in particular to Mary Vink and Wim Wolters, for their whole-hearted support, understanding and practical assistance during the long and often difficult journey which has led to the realization of this book.