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Malays (Asian people)

Images

  • Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Sarawak: two Malay women and a child. Photograph.
  • Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.
  • Singapore: St. John's Island and The Sisters from the beach at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Malaya: a white hunter resting in the shade as native Malays wait nearby in long grass. Pen drawing by J. Taylor, c. 1879.
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    Singapore: view along the beach by Singlap. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31779i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Bomoh/Dukun : the practices and philosophies of the traditional Malay healer / Roland Werner.

    Werner, Roland, 1925- | Date: 1986
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    Singapore: a person with dogs in the Botanical Gardens. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31739i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Singapore: view from the beach at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31737i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Sarawak: two Malay women and a child. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31445i
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