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Group of nomadic Penan gathered around a hut
- Title (English):
- Group of nomadic Penan gathered around a hut
- Collection:
- Perema: Digital Museum of Penan Culture
- Set:
- Penan Cultural Digital Museum
Penans of Sarawak
- Photographer:
- Morrison, Hedda
- Creation Date:
- 1955-1965
- Community Estimated Creation Date:
- 1950-1959
- Location:
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- ID Number:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_161
- Collection Number:
- 4516
- File Name:
- RMM04516_b15_v02_161.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Materials/Techniques:
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject:
- Penan hut
Penan man
Penan woman
Penan youth
Murip paso (Nomadic way of life)
Ngeleboo’ (Penan hut)
- Description:
- The presence of zinc roofing and cloth suggests that the photograph was taken in the 1950s, after World War II. Nevertheless, the culture is still nomadic. The presence of the zinc suggests that the hut is not Penan
Person/people pictured from the Penan indigenous group.
- Notes:
- "Big tree trunk, very firm."
- Source:
- Image source: 'Penans of Sarawak' 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.
- 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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