M0005695: Melanau sickness boat, Sarawak, Malaysia

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/5
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M0005695: Melanau sickness boat, Sarawak, Malaysia. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Sickness boat, Lanchang, Milano Sarawak

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a model of a lancang (lanchang), a type of sailing ship, used by the Melanau people of Sarawak, Malaysia, to hold a dakan which is then floated down the river. A dakan is a carved sickness image. The photograph was published in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, also known as Man, volume 38, 1908. A photograph of the image was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10936).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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