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Dayak (Bornean people)

Images

  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman, two Kayan youths and three Kenyah women. Photograph.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
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Catalogue

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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: 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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    Sarawak: three Sea Dayak women in various types of dress. Photograph.

    | Reference: 30694i
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    Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663403i
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