D. Gerth van Wijk was a Dutch scholar, active in the late nineteenth century, whose work De geschiedenis van prinses Balkis (“The history of Princess Balkis”), published at Padang, is cited by Snouck Hurgronje in The Achehnese in connection with the Achehnese kawe ranggong — a sea-fishing line composed of two parts united by an implement of horn — and with related Padang customs.
Citation in The Achehnese
Gerth van Wijk is cited in a footnote appended to Snouck Hurgronje’s description of Achehnese sea-fishing tackle. The kawe ranggong is a line composed of two parts united by an implement (ranggong) made of horn, and is used for fishing when the vessel is at anchor. The same footnote refers the reader, for further information on the kawe hue (the towing-line trailed behind vessels sailing swiftly before the wind), to the Notulen Bataviaasch Genootschap for 1 March 1892, Bijlage I, No. 12; and, “as regards Padang”, to Gerth van Wijk’s De geschiedenis van prinses Balkis, p. 70, No. 46.
The point of the citation is comparative: Snouck Hurgronje is concerned to establish that the Achehnese fishing-tackle he describes has close parallels at Padang on the West Coast of Sumatra, and Gerth van Wijk’s work — although primarily concerned, as its title suggests, with a quite different subject — incidentally preserves comparative material on the same point.
Place in the comparative apparatus
The citation of Gerth van Wijk is one of several places in The Achehnese where Snouck Hurgronje invokes a comparative West-Sumatran source in order to bring out the wider distribution of an Achehnese usage. The same method governs his citation of Schmeltz’s Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie for the Hasan-Husain Festival at Padang and Bencoolen, and of G. A. Wilken on goitre in the Indian Archipelago. Such references, often tucked away in footnotes, constitute the comparative scaffolding by means of which the customs of Acheh are shown to be at once local in their immediate form and widely diffused in their underlying pattern.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
D. Gerth van Wijk was a Dutch scholar, active in the late nineteenth century, whose work De geschiedenis van prinses Balkis (“The history of Princess Balkis”), published at Padang, is cited by Snouck Hurgronje in The Achehnese in connection with the Achehnese kawe ranggong — a sea-fishing line composed of two parts united by an implement of horn — and with related Padang customs.
Citation in The Achehnese
Gerth van Wijk is cited in a footnote appended to Snouck Hurgronje’s description of Achehnese sea-fishing tackle. The kawe ranggong is a line composed of two parts united by an implement (ranggong) made of horn, and is used for fishing when the vessel is at anchor. The same footnote refers the reader, for further information on the kawe hue (the towing-line trailed behind vessels sailing swiftly before the wind), to the Notulen Bataviaasch Genootschap for 1 March 1892, Bijlage I, No. 12; and, “as regards Padang”, to Gerth van Wijk’s De geschiedenis van prinses Balkis, p. 70, No. 46.
The point of the citation is comparative: Snouck Hurgronje is concerned to establish that the Achehnese fishing-tackle he describes has close parallels at Padang on the West Coast of Sumatra, and Gerth van Wijk’s work — although primarily concerned, as its title suggests, with a quite different subject — incidentally preserves comparative material on the same point.
Place in the comparative apparatus
The citation of Gerth van Wijk is one of several places in The Achehnese where Snouck Hurgronje invokes a comparative West-Sumatran source in order to bring out the wider distribution of an Achehnese usage. The same method governs his citation of Schmeltz’s Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie for the Hasan-Husain Festival at Padang and Bencoolen, and of G. A. Wilken on goitre in the Indian Archipelago. Such references, often tucked away in footnotes, constitute the comparative scaffolding by means of which the customs of Acheh are shown to be at once local in their immediate form and widely diffused in their underlying pattern.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.