Sarawak (state)
Found in 285 Collections and/or Records:
Oil from Borneo, 1940 - 1959
167 x 115 mm. General exterior view of industrial plant. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set No. 268). (2). A three-language signboard gives 'No Smoking' directions in English, Chinese and Malay (Jawi script) near the Lutong oil distillation plant'.
On the Sadong River, 1904 - 1910
Group portrait of Dyaks.
Opening of the Cinnabar mines in Tegora Hill, Upper Sarawak, 1880, 1880
240 x 188 mm. A view looking down on Chinese gardens and labourers' house in a jungle clearing at the Tegora Hill Cinnabar Mines situated some 60 miles from Kuching. The houses raised off the ground are Malay houses. A note on the reverse states that the tree in the centre of the print is a Tapa tree and supposed to be upwards of 200 feet high with parasitic pine in branches.
Opening of the cinnabar mines on Tegora Hill, Upper Sarawak, about 60 miles from Kuching, the capital of Sarawak (Borneo), 1868 - 1890
Oyong Nyaring, Chief of the Punans of the Tinjar River, 1900
103 x 143 mm. Full face head and shoulders portrait.
Oyong Nyaring, Chief of the Punans of the Tinjar River, 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.
Paran River, Rejang District, 1900
146 x 102 mm. View looking along the river, with a group of men, women and children from the area posed at the water’s edge.
Peace- making at Claudetown, between the Baram and Batang Kayan Tribes, 1900
147 x 104 mm. Group portrait showing chiefs sitting on a raised dais between wooden carved images, with men in the background. The two central figures are Tama Bulan and Tama Kulieng (see Y3035A/40 and 41).
Photodilus Badius, 1900
97 x 73 mm. View of the small owl Photdilus Badius standing on a table.
Poling up the Pelagus Rapids, 1900
141 x 104 mm. Showing a long wooden dugout being poled up rapids on the Rejang River.
Punans’ heads taken by Sea Dyaks, 1900
144 x 103 mm. Showing a row of human heads hanging from a wooden beam in the open air.
Punans of the Tinjar River, 1900
184 x 103 mm. Group portrait eight Punan men and youths.
Punans, Tinjar River, 1900
104 x 148 mm. Group portrait of four Punan men dressed in loin cloths.
Python urtus, 1900
100 x 78 mm. Showing the python, probably a dead specimen, lying on a table.
Rajah Brookes Palace, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910
Distant view looking across the river towards the palace.
Rapids of the Pata River, 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.
Rapids on the Pata River, 1900
104 x 147 mm. View from the bank looking down onto the rapids.
Rejak, a Malay, 1900
104 x 147 mm. Head and shoulders portrait.
'Reminiscences of 1904', 1904-04-10 - 1904-05-15
Extracts from the diaries and letters of Miss Ella Christie describing her travels to the Malay Archipelago made by Hugh Bryson:
1. 'Malaya in 1904' (17 sheets; 2 copies).
2. 'Kuching in 1904' (6 sheets; 2 copies). The file also contains an offprint from its publication in the 'Sarawak Museum Journal', 10 (1961), 43-49.
Rice planting, Rejang District, 1900
144 x 103 mm. General view of a padi field, with labourers at work.
Rough hewing a blowpipe from a block of wood, 1900
147 x 103 mm. Showing a Kenyah man working a piece of Jagang wood with an adze.
Rough hewing a blowpipe from a block of wood, 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.
Sacrificial poles outside a Kenyah village, 1900
103 x 148 mm. On the taller, known as a Belawing, the heads of enemies are hung temporarily; on the shorter, pieces of dried human flesh have been fastened by means of skewers, as offerings to the omen birds in this case, hawks. Showing the poles in the foreground, with houses raised on stilts beyond.
Sacrificial Poles outside a Kenyah Village, 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.
Sarawak Gazette, 1942-03-27 - 1944-04-01
Copies of the gazette produced in Sydney for evacuated residents: Nos. 1064, 27 Mar. 1942; 1066, 16 July 1942; 1067, 10 Oct. 1942; 1072, 1 Apr. 1944.