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Indonesia: Wedono of Banjaran near Bandung with his following in front of his house.

Indonesia:  Wedono of Banjaran near Bandung with his following in front of his house.

This photograph shows the Wedono of Banjaran (a region in present-day West Java near Bandung), in front of his house, with members of his entourage. In Dutch-administered Java, a wedono was a native regional administrator. The photograph was taken by the studio of Woodbury & Page, which was established in 1857 by the British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page.

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