Malaysia (nation)
Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:
'A football pawang', 1963
An account of how a football match in the Coleman Shield competition around 1910 was cancelled, because neither team would venture onto the field before the other, having been warned that it would bring bad luck.
A garden in Klang [i.e. Kelang], Selangor, 1904 - 1910
View looking across the garden towards a European house (largely obscured by vegetation). A note on the reverse suggests that this might be the house of John Kennaway.
A garden in Klang [i.e. Kelang], Selangor, 1904 - 1910
General view.
A garden in Kuching : Moirs garden, 1904 - 1910
View looking along a tree-shaded path in a Kuching garden.
A hamadryad of record size [? 1880s-1890s], 1880 - 1899
184 x 116 mm. Showing a large hamadryad (a very poisonous serpent native to India and south-east Asia) tethered to a stake. The caption is pencilled in Sir Frank Swettenhams hand.
'A happy return 1934-1938', 1963
An account of Guy Hutchinson's second period of employment as an assistant, this time on the Tenang rubber estate (58 pages).
A high road in Perak : Gunong Kerban in distance, 1904 - 1910
View looking along the road towards mountain ranges.
'A hold up on the Chenderiang Road in 1914', 1960 - 1970
Narrative describing a robbery in the Tapah district (4 sheets).
A house in Kuching, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910
General view of a European house in Kuching, a two storey building with a colonnaded verandah on the ground floor. The verandah on the floor above is shaded with cane blinds.
A Japanese spy in Johor?, 1966-12-12 - 1968-02-09
Material relating to an incident reported by C. E. Collinge during the time he commanded the Armoured Car Unit of the S.S.V.F. While on manoeuvres in Johor in mid-1941, Collinge observed a Japanese army colonel whom he believed might have been a spy. The file contains correspondence between Collinge, Hugh Bryson, W. C. S. Corry and those who might have been able to shed light on the event. It also includes two photographs from Collinge illustrating where the meeting occurred (20 sheets).
A journey to Asia and Africa
A Kajaman girl, 1900
103 x 147 mm. Full length portrait of a Kajaman girl wearing a long skirt, a decorated fez-like hat and long pendant earrings.
A Kalabit smithy, 1900
148 x 104 mm. Showing four men metalworking in the open air. The figure on the left is seated on a raised platform to work the bellows which are in the form of two cylinders through which pistons are driven, the air being expelled through two narrow pipes at the bottom. A second figure holds the metal in the flame, while the remaining two men work the metal with stone hammers.
A Kampar Malay trading boat, 1904 - 1910
View from a sandbank on a river looking towards the high-sterned vessel.
A Kayan and a Sea Dyak, 1900
102 x 147 mm. Full length portrait of a Kayan and a Sea Dyak standing side by side.
A Kayan girl, 1900
105 x 147 mm. Full length portrait of a Kayan girl standing in front of longhouses.
A Kayan obtaining fire by the friction of a cane thong against a piece of soft wood, 1900
147 x 103 mm. Showing a Kayan man holding the wood against the ground with his feet while he rubs the cane thong against it. A group of men and women seated on the floor watches him.
A Kayan woman carrying her child in a sling, 1900
104 x 147 mm. Full length portrait in profile of a woman with a wooden cradle slung on her back.
A Kelamantan of the Baram, 1900
103 x 148 mm. Half-length profile portrait of a Kelamantan youth, with headband and hairstyle similar to Y3035A/65.
A Kenyah girl dancing, 1912
Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.
A Kenyah girl dancing, 1900
148 x 104 mm. Showing a Kenyah girl, dressed in a slit skirt and the round, decorated, fez- like hat, dancing on a mat, with a musician playing a guitar- like instrument and an audience of youths in the background.
A Kenyah hunter, 1912
Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.
A Kenyah hunter, 1900
103 x 146 mm. Showing a Kenyah man standing in the jungle with a spear in one hand and a small pig slung over his shoulder.
A Kenyah smithy, 1912
Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.
A Land Dyak Chief, Upper Sadong River, 1900
104 x 147 mm. Half length portrait of an aged chief.