The Human Dutch [SEP] country of origin
The Human Dutch
The Human Dutch () is a 1963 Dutch documentary film directed by Bert Haanstra, about the daily lives of people in the Netherlands. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was also selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast.
- Simon Carmiggelt - Narrator (Dutch version) (voice)
- Peter Ustinov - Narrator (English version) (voice)
Bamboo wife
A bamboo wife (; Mandarin: zhúfūrén; Cantonese: jūkfūyàhn; Vietnamese: trúc phu nhân; ; ), also known as a Dutch wife, in Tagalog as kawil (literally, fish hook or chain); in Burmese as ဖက်လုံး and in Indonesian as guling, is a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of the human body.
The origin of the English term "Dutch wife" is thought via folk etymology to be from the (former) Dutch colony of Indonesia, where Dutch traders would spend