

PPROCE, Pilot Project Provenance Research on Objects of the Colonial Era, is a joint project of the National Museum of World Cultures, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Expertise Centre of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (ECR/NIOD), with the aim of developing a methodology for provenance research into collections with a colonial context. The project was realized through the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Within this project, the steps were mapped out that are necessary for carrying out provenance research into colonial collections. This was done by means of a number of selected cases from Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
From the collection of the National Museum of World Cultures, 46 objects from Indonesia were examined, for which 33 resulted in provenance reports. The objects can be divided into four different categories:
The provenance reports were written by the researchers Tom Quist (1,5,8,9,10, 23, 24), Klaas Stutje (2,3,4,6,7,20 t/m 22, 32), Mirjam Shatanawi (11 t/m 19; 25 t/m 27), Marieke Bloembergen and Melle Monquil (28), and Caroline Drieënhuizen (29 t/m 31, 33). Their research was carried out in consultation with members of the PPROCE steering group.