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Western Penan man about to finish ngerajang keleput (drilling holes for the blowpipe)
- Title (English):
- Western Penan man about to finish ngerajang keleput (drilling holes for the blowpipe)
- Collection:
- Perema: Digital Museum of Penan Culture
- Set:
- Penan Cultural Digital Museum
Penans of Sarawak
Kerja Ojoo' (handicrafts)
Lakau betēē' (hunting)
- Photographer:
- Morrison, Hedda
- Creation Date:
- 1955-1965
- Community Estimated Creation Date:
- 1960-1969
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_096
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_096.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- blowpipe
Western Penan
hut
Penan man
Kerja Ojoo' (handicrafts)
Lakau betēē' (hunting)
- Description:
- The photograph can be dated to the 1960s from the housing pictured. Garen Jengan thinks this man is Western Penan because he is wearing telem payat (tight necklace) while Stephen Bian Belare disagrees as the roof of the hut pictured does not look Eastern Penan.
Person/people pictured from the Western Penan indigenous group.
- Notes:
- "Ngerajang."
- Source:
- Image source: 'Penans of Sarawak' photobook by Hedda Morrison.
Metadata source: Garen Jengan, Stephen Bian Belare, Taeng 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 "The Penan people along the Baram" 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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