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Eastern Penan woman with a baby in lamin seré, a maternity hut
- Title (English):
- Eastern Penan woman with a baby in lamin seré, a maternity hut
- Collection:
- Perema: Digital Museum of Penan Culture
- Set:
- Penan Cultural Digital Museum
The Penan people along the Baram
- Photographer:
- Morrison, Hedda
- Creation Date:
- 1955-1965
- Community Estimated Creation Date:
- 1970-1974
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_015
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_015.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- Penan hut
lamin sere' (maternity hut)
family
customs
Penan youth
Penan woman
Eastern Penan
Ngeleboo’ (Penan hut)
- Description:
- The woman appears to be of the typical age for Penan women giving birth for the first time. Lamin seré, maternity hut, was built for women to give birth. Seré means lean back.
Person/people pictured from the Eastern Penan indigenous group.
- Source:
- Image source: 'The Penan people along the Baram' photobook by Hedda Morrison.
Metadata source: Garen Jengan and the Penan community of Long Lamai.
- Cite As:
- Hedda Morrison photographs, #4516. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Related Work:
- An alternate printing of this image in "Penans of Sarawak" is available as an "additional view".
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Hedda Morrison photographs
- Box:
- 15
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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