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Petrus Vertenten
Petrus Vertenten (1884 – 1946) was a Belgian Missionary of the Sacred Heart in Dutch New Guinea. Vertenten lived and worked on the south coast of Dutch New Guinea from 1910 to 1925 among the Marind-anim, a Papuan people in the wider area of Merauke, and can be described as an authority on knowledge about them. Vertenten later spent time in Belgian Congo, making ethnological researches in all places he visited. He was also a painter and a draftsman, producing perhaps the first colored portraits of a Papuan culture. When the Marinds were risking extinction due to the spread of an imported venereal disease combined with their particular sexual practices, Vertenten repeatedly alerted the Dutch government in Merauke, and eventually got to speak to the governor-general in Batavia. He went down in history as "savior of the Kaja-Kaja's" and was appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his efforts. Life and work He was born in Hamme on 3 October 1884, to Hendrik and Clem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrus Vertenten
Petrus Vertenten (1884 – 1946) was a Belgian Missionary of the Sacred Heart in Dutch New Guinea. Vertenten lived and worked on the south coast of Dutch New Guinea from 1910 to 1925 among the Marind-anim, a Papuan people in the wider area of Merauke, and can be described as an authority on knowledge about them. Vertenten later spent time in Belgian Congo, making ethnological researches in all places he visited. He was also a painter and a draftsman, producing perhaps the first colored portraits of a Papuan culture. When the Marinds were risking extinction due to the spread of an imported venereal disease combined with their particular sexual practices, Vertenten repeatedly alerted the Dutch government in Merauke, and eventually got to speak to the governor-general in Batavia. He went down in history as "savior of the Kaja-Kaja's" and was appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his efforts. Life and work He was born in Hamme on 3 October 1884, to Hendrik and Clem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
