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Ethnology - Malaysia

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Images from the collections

Images about Ethnology - Malaysia

42 images from works
  • 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: a Kenyah hunter with blowpipe and dead animal. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Tama Bulan, a Kenyah chief. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a group of Kalabit men. Photograph.
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Works from the collections

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

    | Reference: 31085i
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    Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31448i
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    Sarawak: two Kenyah people boring a blowpipe. Photograph.

    | Reference: 30188i
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    Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31643i
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    Sarawak: a Land Dayak chief. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31629i
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Related topics

Malaysia
Saraks
Dayak (Bornean people)
Kenyah (Southeast Asian people)
Blowguns
Rivers
Kayan (Bornean people)
Ethnology - Borneo
Kelabit (Southeast Asian people)
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