IDNO

DG.101898.PAO

Description

View of the detached wooden house belonging to Otor anak Sunjam, Paka anak Otor and their families, situated on a hill overlooking the longhouse at Kampung Benuk. It has a wood-shingled roof and an upper covered verandah made of wooden slats. In front of the house is a small lawn with several plants, including a palm tree and possibly an aloe with outward-fanning leaves and white tips. A ‘staircase’ made of short logs runs down the slope on the right.
In the foreground is the bamboo slat tanju (open gallery) of one end of the longhouse, from which the photograph was taken. On the left and right are two individual raised bamboo drying platforms with wooden pole ‘railings’. Clothes are hung out to dry on a line over the platform on the right.

Place

SE Asia Borneo; Malaysia; Sarawak; Penrissen; Kampung Benuk [Kampung Segu Bunuk]

Cultural Affliation

Bidayuh [historically Land Dayak]

Named Person

Paka anak Otor; Otor anak Sunjam

Photographer

?Paka anak Otor

Collector / Expedition

Paka anak Otor

Date

circa 1960 - 1970

Collection Name

Paka anak Otor Collection

Source

Paka anak OtorChua, Liana

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: A selection of 185 prints from Paka anak Otor’s larger collection of approximately 500 prints was made by Liana Chua during fieldwork in Kampung Benuk, Sarawak, Malaysia, in 2005. The purchase of non-exclusive reproduction rights [RM 1845, £250] by the Museum to the family of Paka anak Otor [82 Kampung Benuk, Jalan Puncak Borneo, Kuching 93250, Sarawak, Malaysia], and digital copy photographs of the collection [RM 869, £125] were paid for by the Museum Acquisition Fund [£250] and part of a Crowther-Beynon grant [£125] for the collecting of Sarawak objects. The digital scans were made by Fung Huang Colour Photo Centre [153 Padungan Road, Kuching, Sarawak] in 2005. [Liana Chua 2/8/2007]

Place: Otor and Paka’s family were among the first to move out of the longhouse at Kampung Benuk, shifting in 1954 to a detached wooden house on a hill, shown in the photograph, at one end of the village. [Liana Chua 23/8/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Liana Chua 23/8/2007]