Cover illustration: âOnze legerplaats in de vlakte Wienotoâ (âOur camp on the plain of Winotoâ), by Pieter van Oort. Plate 29 (Timor) from the volume Land- en volkenkunde of the Verhandelingen, NCAO, 871_029. Public domain. An indigenous man shows a snake to two members of the Natuurkundige Commissie that can possibly be identified as Salomon Müller on the left and Pieter van Oort on the right. In Gasso, E., Stork, L., Weber, A. et al. ed., Natuurkundige Commissie Archives Online. Leiden: Brill 2020. Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden; The Netherlands. https://dh.brill.com/nco/view/nco_NNM001000871_029/makingsense
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at https://catalog.loc.gov
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025002962
Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: âBrillâ. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.
ISSN 2452-3283
ISBN 978-90-04-69686-0 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69687-7 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004696877
Copyright 2025 by Pieter van Wingerden. Published by Koninklijke Brill BV, Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden, The Netherlands.
Koninklijke Brill BV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Brill Wageningen Academic, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau and V&R unipress.
Koninklijke Brill BV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill BV via brill.com or copyright.com.
For more information: info@brill.com.
Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters.
This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner.