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Eastern Penan woman carrying a child in nagau (a sling) made from the bark of a sago tree, with a man looking at the baby
- Title (English):
- Eastern Penan woman carrying a child in nagau (a sling) made from the bark of a sago tree, with a man looking at the baby
- Collection:
- Perema: Digital Museum of Penan Culture
- Set:
- Penan Cultural Digital Museum
Penans of Sarawak
- Photographer:
- Morrison, Hedda
- Creation Date:
- 1955-1965
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_113
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_113.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- family
jewelry
sago
Penan youth
Penan woman
Eastern Penan
selungan
Kerja Ojoo' (handicrafts)
- Description:
- The round earrings worn by the woman are called takaling and are used to stretch the wearer's earlobes. Selungan, or bracelets, are worn by Eastern Penan children from or before the age of one. The sling is called an agau, which comes from the branch of the sago leaf from the sago tree, and is used by both mothers and fathers to carry their babies until they are ready to walk on their own. The cylindrical beads are called ameng sibu, while the hanging beads are called ameng sebu (around a man's neck).
Person/people pictured from the Eastern Penan indigenous group.
- Source:
- Image source: 'Penans of Sarawak' photobook by Hedda Morrison.
Metadata source: Franklin George, Garen Jengan, Kase 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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