M0005695: Melanau sickness boat, Sarawak, Malaysia

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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 <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i>, also known as <i>Man</i>, volume 38, 1908. A photograph of the image was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10936).

M0005695: Melanau sickness boat, Sarawak, Malaysia

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