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Two Eastern Penan women wearing cloth tied around their waists, wearing Selungan and necklaces, looking forward
- Title (English):
- Two Eastern Penan women wearing cloth tied around their waists, wearing Selungan and necklaces, looking forward
- 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
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_041
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v01_041.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- clothing
jewelry
Long Kerong
selungan
Penan woman
- Description:
- The woman on the left is named Tiang Idah. Hailing from Long Spigen, she passed away during settled life in the 1980s. She is the younger sister of Mr. Garen Jengan's late mother. The woman on the right is from Long Kerong and passed away during nomadic life in the 1950s.
Person/people pictured from the Eastern Penan indigenous group.
- Source:
- Image source: 'The Penan people along the Baram' photobook by Hedda Morrison.
Metadata source: Franklin George, Garen Jengan (nephew of the woman on the left), James Lalo 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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