IDNO

DG.101900.PAO

Description

View of the longhouse at Kampung Benuk from the lawn in front of Paka anak Otor’s house on a hill overlooking the village. In the foreground is a hibiscus plant; in the background are a tall tapang tree and limestone mountains, including Dorod Rimau (Tiger Mountain).
The longhouse has a raised open bamboo platform (tanju), across which lines of washing have been hung. On the right are individual apartments and a shared inner gallery (awah) beneath a triangular thatched attap roof with ‘skylights’ cut into it. A man carrying a baby walks down the ladder leading off the end of the tanju; two children stand on it.
In the background to the left can be seen the conical attap roof of the old panggah (meeting and ritual house). The longhouse is surrounded by foliage.

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

February 1962

Collection Name

Paka anak Otor Collection

Source

Paka anak OtorChua, Liana

Format

Print Colour

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, the lawn of which is 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]