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Box 6

 Container

Contains 88 Results:

Penan, 1987

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 88
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. “Visit to the Penan” as scheduled by tour during day trip to the caves, which had been newly opened. Staple foods are provided to the Penan by Park officers. Visitors sometimes bring gifts and buy handicrafts from those in the “Penan village.” The longhouse, built by the government, is entirely unlike Penan houses. The inhabitants are on display, part of a “cultural show,” in a travesty of Penan independent and lively life."

Dates: 1987

Penan, 1985-09-16

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. Visit of Malaria Inspection Team to Long Ketuat, 16 Sept. 1985: Entering house; interior. Group is impoverished, farming goes poorly, no game is to be found and men depart to seek game elsewhere. Some beadwork is done for sale. "

Dates: 1985-09-16

Sekapan, 1985-10-05 - 1985-10-06

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. By longboat to Long Dungan, Sekapan longhouse above Belaga."

Dates: 1985-10-05 - 1985-10-06

Penan, 1985-09-16

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. First visit to Long Apu (with Malaria Inspection Team), 16 Sept. 1985: Crowd is gathered on the verandah. Children smoke early, only one attends the primary school. Community is demoralized and malnourished, since game has disappeared in logged forests, their traditional hunting and gathering areas."

Dates: 1985-09-16

Kelabit, 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

"B&W, matte & glossy. Bario terrain of low-lying mist, mountains, wet padi fields, muddy paths. Interior of Bario longhouse: Nglinuh Karuh cooking at fireplace open on four sides, neighbor at her own hearth (no walls separate individual family dwellings in cooking and gathering areas)."

Dates: 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

Kelabit, 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents "B&W, matte & glossy. Bario: Niar Ayu, original singer of Adi, Song of Agan; Ngalinuh Karuh, singer of lakuh songs (here performing the pole-thumping dance with line of women); gatherings during evening celebration; CR with Ngalinuh Karuh; Inan Diu’, original singer of Balang Lipang, singing some of what he still recalls, the late Nicolas Kusing reading along from the Kelabit section in Special Monograph No. 2, “Song of Balang Lipang”; Inan Diu’ singing banging songs (headhunting...
Dates: 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

Penan, 1985-09-19

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. Second visit to Long Apu, to record and to learn word meanings in some songs, 19 Sept. 1985: Young women with children; father with children; women singing."

Dates: 1985-09-19

Kelabit, 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. Gathering and singing in Bario longhouse: Women singing, mostly lakuh songs; holding microphone, Nicolas Kusing, Headmaster, Primary School in Bario, a fine young Kelabit man who died suddenly in 1988. "

Dates: 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

Kelabit, 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. Inside Bario longhouse: Women singing and dancing the longdance, traditionally performed in upriver areas; performing also the pole-thumping dance in longdance style."

Dates: 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

Kelabit, 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents

"Color, glossy. Inside Bario longhouse: Inan Diu’, original singer of “Song of Balang Lipang,” performing what he can still recall of the epic; Nicolas Kusing reading it in Special Monograph No. 2, in Kelabit and English; Inan Diu’ singing banging songs, headhunting exploits of days past (cheered on by the chorus of women present), along with other songs."

Dates: 1985-10-29 - 1985-11-05