Teuku Chut Eumpeu ARA was an uleebalang of the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh, known to readers of The Achehnese as the subject of one of the photographic plates that illustrate Vol. I of Snouck Hurgronje’s work. The portrait caption — “TEUKU CHUT EUMPEU ARA (XXII MUKIMS)” — places him among the hereditary chiefs of the highlands of the XXII Mukims sagi, the most populous and in many respects the most important of the three sagi divisions of Great Acheh.
His personal name combines the territorial prefix Teuku, the chiefly title of Achehnese nobility, with the clan-name Chut. The Chut (also called Ja or To’ Sandang) were one of the three allied Achehnese kawoms (tribal groupings) whose traditional bond with the Imeum Peuet is commemorated in popular verse. The compound name Eumpeu ARA designates the locality or sub-district with which his family was associated, in accordance with the common Achehnese habit of identifying a chief by the place of his origin as much as by his personal appellation.
The text surrounding the illustration in Vol. I deals with the panglima kawom, the hereditary tribal chief of the clan, whose office — like all Achehnese offices — devolved by inheritance but who, as the book carefully notes, “may take no share in the territorial government.” The three allied tribes (Lhèe Reutoih, Chut or Ja Sandang, and Trö’) counted as one for the purposes of the panglimaship, and a blood-debt of any one of them was regarded as resting upon all three. The portrait of Teuku Chut Eumpeu ARA is therefore of documentary interest as a visual record of a chief whose family embodied, in the highlands of the XXII Mukims, the continuing interplay between tribal and territorial authority that characterized Achehnese political life.
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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.
Teuku Chut Eumpeu ARA was an uleebalang of the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh, known to readers of The Achehnese as the subject of one of the photographic plates that illustrate Vol. I of Snouck Hurgronje’s work. The portrait caption — “TEUKU CHUT EUMPEU ARA (XXII MUKIMS)” — places him among the hereditary chiefs of the highlands of the XXII Mukims sagi, the most populous and in many respects the most important of the three sagi divisions of Great Acheh.
His personal name combines the territorial prefix Teuku, the chiefly title of Achehnese nobility, with the clan-name Chut. The Chut (also called Ja or To’ Sandang) were one of the three allied Achehnese kawoms (tribal groupings) whose traditional bond with the Imeum Peuet is commemorated in popular verse. The compound name Eumpeu ARA designates the locality or sub-district with which his family was associated, in accordance with the common Achehnese habit of identifying a chief by the place of his origin as much as by his personal appellation.
The text surrounding the illustration in Vol. I deals with the panglima kawom, the hereditary tribal chief of the clan, whose office — like all Achehnese offices — devolved by inheritance but who, as the book carefully notes, “may take no share in the territorial government.” The three allied tribes (Lhèe Reutoih, Chut or Ja Sandang, and Trö’) counted as one for the purposes of the panglimaship, and a blood-debt of any one of them was regarded as resting upon all three. The portrait of Teuku Chut Eumpeu ARA is therefore of documentary interest as a visual record of a chief whose family embodied, in the highlands of the XXII Mukims, the continuing interplay between tribal and territorial authority that characterized Achehnese political life.
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.