Stages in the manufacture of Sea Dyak cloth. Spinning the thread
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Contributors
Shelford, Robert Walter Campbell, 1872-1912, Naturalist
Creation Date
2003-12-18
Publication Date
2004-11-05Publisher
Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge.
Language
en_GB
Type
Image
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148 x 104 mm. Showing an Iban woman operating a wooden spinning wheel. The photograph is from: Hose, Charles and Shelford, Robert (1900), 'Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak'. Harpenden: Valentine and Co. The photograph also appears in: Gomes, Edwin H. (1911) 'Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. London, p.128. In this volume it is subtitled: 'She is seated on a mat, in a characteristic attitude and is making yarn out of the cotton, using a primitive spinning wheel'. Also in: Hose, Charles and McDougall, William (1912), 'The pagan tribes of Borneo'. Volume 1. London, p.218. Photograph taken circa 1900 by Hose and Shelford.
Spatial Coverage
Sarawak (Asia, Malaysia, East Malaysia)
Temporal Coverage
start=1900; end=1900; scheme=DCTERMS.W3CDTF
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Host Item: RCS Photograph Collection, Y3035A.
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Copyright Cambridge University Library.