IDNO

T.153569.RPT

Description

Penghulu (chief or community leader) Oyong Ding Wan, a Kayan man from Malaysia, and his wife sitting inside a building in Long Laput. Oyong Ding Wan is wearing a striped shirt, woven hat, and a red flower around his neck. His wife is wearing a brown and cream patterned top, a necklace, gold earrings, and a black, red, and yellow head band with feathers on each side. [KK 15/11/2022]

Place

SE Asia; Malaysia; Borneo; Sarawak; Long Laput

Cultural Affliation

Kayan

Named Person

Penghulu Oyong Ding Wan

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre February 1981

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.153308.RPT - T.153754.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1038/.

T.153569.RPT - T.153592.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1038/13.

Biographical reference: Penghulu Oyong Ding Wan was elected to the Baram District Council elections in 1963 as the representative for Long Lama. [source: The Sarawak Government Gazette, 28th June 1963 in a bound volume (Volume 18) from Stanford University Library, digitised by Google Books, p. 367 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Sarawak_Government_Gazette/d55AgiYOLHgC?hl=en&gbpv=0 KK and TJ 25/10/2022]