teukoe | An Acehnese title for a traditional leader, sometimes translated as “prince” |
Tjoet Nya Dhin | A heroine of the Aceh War, the woman who led the Acehnese guerrillas in the last phase of the war against the Dutch; she was captured and exiled to West Java in 1910 and died a year later. |
tuan | Malay word meaning “master” or “sir” |
warung | Small shop, booth, or stall |
wayang | Shadow puppets |
wedana | The head of a municipality, one of the lower administrative positions |
Marie van Zeggelen | Marie van Zeggelen went on to write a number of books sympathetic to the Natives’ struggle for freedom; these included A Biography of Kartini (1908), a book on the struggle of the Buginese, De Onderworpenen (The Vanquished), Gouden Keris (Golden Keris) , and Oude Glorie (The Golden Age) , about Aceh during its heyday in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |