Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Penan family in a Kenyah house
- Title (English):
- Penan family in a Kenyah house
- Collection:
- Perema: Digital Museum of Penan Culture
- Set:
- Penan Cultural Digital Museum
The Penan people along the Baram
- Photographer:
- Morrison, Hedda
- Creation Date:
- 1950-1985
- Community Estimated Creation Date:
- 1945-1949
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_030
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_030.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- hut
jewelry
family
Penan youth
Penan woman
Kenyah
- Description:
- Potentially dated to the Tamu, possibly just after 1946, as the people are still wearing bark for clothing. The house pictured can be identified as Kenyah due to the smoothness of the wall. Later Penan homes were made from bark. The earrings are made from wood while the clothing is made from bark, with the white cloth worn by the leftmost person obtained through trade.
Person/people pictured from the Penan indigenous group.
- Source:
- Image source: 'The Penan people along the Baram' photobook by Hedda Morrison.
Metadata source: Franklin George, Garen Jengan and the Penan community of Long Lamai.
- Cite As:
- Hedda Morrison photographs, #4516. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Hedda Morrison photographs
- Box:
- 15
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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