About this site

This site used to give visitors information on the multi media productions of DJMC. Since 2003 DJMC has stopped its production activities. Some of their productions (in the Dutch language) are still available, for more information you can contact us.

Now this site is a place for information about traditional art and music, particularly from the Phillipines. The idea came up when we realised that our collections of Philippine musical instruments, textiles and beadwork, although safely stored in the depots of two museums, had not been seen for almost 30 years. We asked the museums to return the collections to us so that we could present them on the Internet.

Now we can show you our musical instruments, textiles and beadwork from the Philippines. And we have added an extensive and updated report on our ongoing search for the history of the tiger bells as a possible migration tracer.

The pages will be updated and improved regularly. We also hope that other contributors might be willing to share their websites, pictures and knowledge about subjects related to the Philippines, and South East Asia in general, with us. Therefore we have added a list of links, still a short one as yet but we will try to update that regularly as well.

Welcome to our website!

Elly Hemmes
Fekke de Jager

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