M0005534: Oyong Nyaring, Chief of the Punan Bahs, Borneo

Date:
8 August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/46
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M0005534: Oyong Nyaring, Chief of the Punan Bahs, Borneo. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Chief of the Punans with ears pierced and stretched in loops.

Description

Mounted reproduction of a photograph of a Punan Bah Chief. The photograph was original published in Hose, Charles: The pagan tribes of Borneo, London, 1912. A print of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10824). Related images: V0037451

Publication/Creation

8 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 31128i

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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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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