An island in the Malay Archipelago, east of Sumatra, north of Java, and west of Celebes. It is the third largest island in the world. Its name is a Portuguese alteration of BRUNEI, located on it. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p163; Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p73)
    

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Borneo: a woman seated next to a half-opened canopied area. Coloured lithograph by C.F. Kell after Carl Bock.

Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.

Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.

Borneo: a village raised on stilts above the water. Coloured lithograph by C.F. Kell after Carl Bock.

A Dyak woman in a canoe is handing her child to a woman on the river bank; a tattooed man is holding various objects. Lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839.

Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. 60, December 1911.

A comparative study of two yaws endemics in South-West Borneo / door Nicolaas Martinus van der Hoff.

Iban shamanism : an analysis of the ethnographic literature / Penelope Graham ; with a foreword by Derek Freeman.

Five years in China : from 1842 to 1847. With an account of the occupation of the islands of Labuan and Borneo by Her Majesty's forces / by Lieut. F.E. Forbes.

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Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.

Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. 60, December 1911.

A comparative study of two yaws endemics in South-West Borneo / door Nicolaas Martinus van der Hoff.

Iban shamanism : an analysis of the ethnographic literature / Penelope Graham ; with a foreword by Derek Freeman.

Five years in China : from 1842 to 1847. With an account of the occupation of the islands of Labuan and Borneo by Her Majesty's forces / by Lieut. F.E. Forbes.