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  • Borneo: a Dayak warrior, standing holding a spear and a shield. Coloured lithograph by C.F. Kell after Carl Bock.
  • A Dyak woman in a canoe is handing her child to a woman on the river bank; a tattooed man is holding various objects. Lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839.
  • Sarawak: a Land Dayak chief. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Sea Dayaks with weapons and head-dresses. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan and Sea Dayak man, three Land Dayaks, and a Sea Dayak man and woman. Photographs.
  • Sarawak: beehives hanging in a Sea Dayak's house. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman, two Kayan youths and three Kenyah women. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: two Sea Dayaks at a cockfight. Photograph.
  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • Sarawak: three Sea Dayak women in various types of dress. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl weaving cotton on a loom. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: the supporting poles of a Kayan tribal house and a Sea Dayak house under construction. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Sea Dayak men at a head feast. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl picking leaves for use as fibres. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.