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An orang-utan carrying a girl into a tree as a man shoots arrows from below. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, ca. 1795, after J.B. Ihle.

Sarawak: an adult orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

Two orang-utans wearing clothes and drinking tea. Coloured lithograph by Day & Haghe after W Hawkins.

Sarawak: a baby orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

Darwin : anthropology.

An orang outang. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

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Bornean orangutan

Images from the collections

Images referencing Bornean orangutan

Works from the collections

Darwin : anthropology.

Two orang-utans wearing clothes and drinking tea. Coloured lithograph by Day & Haghe after W Hawkins.

An orang outang. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Sarawak: an adult orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

An orang-utan carrying a girl into a tree as a man shoots arrows from below. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, ca. 1795, after J.B. Ihle.

Bornean orangutan

Images from the collections

Images referencing Bornean orangutan

Works from the collections

Darwin : anthropology.

Two orang-utans wearing clothes and drinking tea. Coloured lithograph by Day & Haghe after W Hawkins.

An orang outang. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Sarawak: an adult orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

An orang-utan carrying a girl into a tree as a man shoots arrows from below. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, ca. 1795, after J.B. Ihle.

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