M0005540: An Iban, or Sea Dayak, woman, Borneo

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Sea Dayak woman in The Pagan Tribes of Borneo

Mounted reproduction of a photograph of an Iban, or Sea Sayak, woman. 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 10818). Related images: V0037428

8 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 30632i

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.

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