Sarawak: people of a Long Pokun tribe from the Upper Tinjar region. Photograph.

Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.

Sarawak: a Bakatan man. Photograph.

Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.

Sarawak: two Kayans wrestling. Photograph.

Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman, two Kayan youths and three Kenyah women. Photograph.

Sarawak: a Ukit man. Photograph.

Sarawak: interior of the Baram Fort. Photograph.

Sarawak: a Kenyah hunter with blowpipe and dead animal. Photograph.

Sarawak: Tama Bulan, a Kenyah chief. Photograph.

Sarawak: a Kayan woman carrying her child in a sling. Photograph.

Sarawak: Laki Bo, a Kayan tribal chief. Photograph.

1 photograph : photoprint, platinum ; 10.3 x 14.6 cm

Sarawak: three men standing by the Baram River. Photograph.

1 photograph : photoprint, platinum ; 10.5 x 14.4 cm

Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

1 photograph : photoprint, platinum ; 14.6 x 10.3 cm

Sarawak: two Kenyah people boring a blowpipe. Photograph.

Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.

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Saraks

Images from the collections

Images referencing Saraks

Works from the collections

Sarawak: three men standing by the Baram River. Photograph.

Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

Sarawak: two Kenyah people boring a blowpipe. Photograph.

Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.

Saraks

Images from the collections

Images referencing Saraks

Works from the collections

Sarawak: three men standing by the Baram River. Photograph.

Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

Sarawak: two Kenyah people boring a blowpipe. Photograph.

Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.

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