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Hikayat Inderaputera, ‘The tale of Inderaputera’, is a Malay romance about the fantastical adventures of Prince Inderaputera, son of the king of Semantapura.<br/><br/> Probably composed in the late 16th century, Hikayat Inderaputera was one of the most widespread and popular Malay tales, and is known from over thirty manuscripts dating from the late 17th century onwards.
The Minangkabau ethnic group, also known as Minang (Urang Minang in Minangkabau language), is indigenous to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. Their culture is matrilineal and patriarchal, with property and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men. This custom is called Adat perpatih in Malaysia and Lareh Bodi Caniago in Indonesia.<br/><br/> Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra, while about 4 million more are scattered throughout many Indonesian and Malay peninsular cities and towns.<br/><br/> The Minangkabau are strongly Islamic, but also follow their ethnic traditions, or adat. The Minangkabau adat was derived from animist and Hindu-Buddhist beliefs before the arrival of Islam, and remnants of animist beliefs still exist even among some practicing Muslims.
From 1861 to 1890 the Munich publishing firm of Braun and Schneider published plates of historic and contemporary costume in their magazine Munchener Bilderbogen.<br/><br/> These plates were eventually collected in book form and published at the turn of the century in Germany and England.
An Undang is a ruling chief or territorial chief who still play an important role in the state of Negeri Sembilan. The name is believed to be derived from the Malay word undang-undang meaning law.<br/><br/>Traditionally, the Minangkabau who settled in Negeri Sembilan, at the end of the 17th Century choose from amongst themselves a 'penghulu' or headman. Several of these 'penghulus', notably that of Sungai Ujong, Jelebu, Johol and Rembau became powerful enough to exalt themselves above other 'penghulus'. By the early part of the 18th Century, the leaders of these four districts started calling themselves 'Undang'.