IDNO

DG.101945.PAO

Description

A group of boys, mostly wearing shorts and some shirts or tee-shirts, gather around a large wooden pestle and mortar (risong) in the awah (inner gallery) of the longhouse at Kampung Benuk. Two of the boys are playfully demonstrating how to pound rice in the anvil-shaped mortar with two long wooden ‘pestles’.
The floor of the awah is made of a combination of bamboo and wooden slats. Above it, just below the roof, is a smaller ‘platform’ of wooden poles used for storage. On the left is the wooden plank wall that partitions off the individual apartments. An empty loosely woven basket (?obit) is mounted to the wall by one of the doors.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Bidayuh [historically Land Dayak]

Named Person

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]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Liana Chua 24/8/2007]