M0005695: Melanau sickness boat, Sarawak, Malaysia

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Sickness boat, Lanchang, Milano Sarawak

Reproduction of a photograph of a model of a lancang (lanchang), a type of sailing ship, used by the Melanau people of Sarawak, Malaysia, to hold a dakan which is then floated down the river. A dakan is a carved sickness image. The photograph was published in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, also known as Man, volume 38, 1908. A photograph of the image was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10936).

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.