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Selected Photographs from The Pagan Tribes of Borneo

These photographs are from the long-out-of-print work The Pagan Tribes of Borneo: A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations, by Charles Hose, D.Sc., and William McDougall, M.B., F.R.S., with an "Appendix on the Physical Characters of the Races of Borneo" by A. C. Haddon, D.Sc., F.R.S. The photographs are from Volume One of two volumes published in London by Macmillan and Co., Limited, in 1912.



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Young Kayan Chief with Middle-Class Companion

Photographed by Charles Hose


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Iban Woman with Spinning-wheel

Photographed by Charles Hose

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Youthful Sea Dayaks in Gala Dress

Photographed by Charles Hose

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Tama Bulan Wang, the Kenyah Penghulu of the Baram District

Photographed by Charles Hose


These photographs were scanned by Jeroen Hellingman, who has scanned the entire first volume of The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, including all of its over 200 plates and numerous illustrations. An overview of Mr. Hellingman's scans of the illustrations in this and other books can be found at http://www.newbeads.com/WebGalleries/. The full text of The Pagan Tribes of Borneo with all illustrations may be downloaded from Project Gutenberg, where it is Etext #3307. Project Gutenberg is an electronic library that provides free public access to a huge list of books and publications.

Readers of Michal Heron's review of Anthropology and Photography are invited to comment on these photographs from The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.



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