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Marriage by the Glove: Marriage of Separated Lovers

Marrying a European woman was the dream of European immigrant men living in the Dutch East Indies. To tie the knot, women married gloves.

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6 Agustus 2023
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Marriage portrait of Bets, a woman who married with gloves because her husband, the man in the framed photo, was assumed to be living in the Dutch East Indies, around 1900-1915. (Jean Vaessen/Rijksmuseum).

Relationships between European immigrant men and native Indonesian women, which led to concubinage, were common during the Dutch colonial era. These relationships were generally short-lived as European men still wished to marry European or Indo-European women of equal status.

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