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Showing a wood and thatched hut raised on piles, with a group of Dyak youths gathered at an opening in the roof.

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147 x 103 mm. View looking up river towards the small falls, with thick jungle on either bank.

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104 x 148 mm. View of the wooden image of the Kenyah god.

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76 x 100 mm. Display of three zithers.

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147 x 103 mm. View looking across the grassed open space towards the fort, a single storey small white building with steeply pitched roof and lookout posts at the two corners. A platoon stands on parade in front of the building.

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147 x 104 mm. View of the rear of the building with figures posed on the wooden steps leading up to the entrance.

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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.

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158 x 109 mm. A view from the sea looking towards a sandy beach with a jungle covered mountain in the background. Exact location unidentified.

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158 x 108 mm. View looking along the beach towards a kampong situated among palm trees on the waters edge.

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147 x 104 mm. Showing beehives in the form of (?leather) drums hanging from the rafters of a Dyak house.

Scope and Contents Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...

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147 x 104 mm. View looking along the river in the basin of the Rejang, with jungle on either bank and mountains in the distance.

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Charles Brooke (1829-1917), Rajah of Sarawak

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104 x 148 mm. Showing four Kayan hunters seated beneath a shelter constructed of leaves laid over a wooden framework. This forms a sloping roof with open sides.

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141 x 103 mm. Showing a family group (distant view) gathered round a fire and a makeshift shelter on a gravel bed in the centre of a river.

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104 x 116 mm. View of the carved wooden door to the room of Aban Jau, the Sibop Chief, Tinjar River.

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205 x 153 mm. Showing the mission buildings and wooden church, with jungle in the background.

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153 x 102 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a masked Chinese actor.

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146 x 105 mm. General view of the front of the temple.

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104 x 149 mm (vignetted oval print). Showing a Kenyah man collecting sap from the upas or ipoh tree (Antiaris toxicaria). This runs from cuts made in the tree collected in a bamboo cup, a similar operation to rubber tapping.

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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.

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148 x 105 mm. Showing three varieties of rattan corset.

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146 x 103 mm. View looking along the river, with overhanging trees on either bank and a boat in mid-stream.

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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.

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A diary of Le Sueur's experiences in South-East Asia, October 1998-April 1999, 270 pages, including 48 pages of photographs and 4 pages of maps. The areas covered are, in order, Thailand; Laos; Northern Vietnam; South Vietnam; Cambodia; Luzon, Palawan, Central Archipaelago and Mindanao (Philippines); Sabah (Malaysia); Brunei; Sarawak (Malaysia); Western Malaysia; Bangkok.