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Feb. 24, 1962 - Orang-Utangs are their family pets: When Tom Harrison, the Sarawak Museum Curator is out Eva clings to his wife, even when she is on the telephone. Sarawak Museum our Tor is war hero: With German wife he lives in a home that could well be a museum: Tom Harrison, son of the late General G. Harrison DSO, was the first white man to be dropped into Borneo on Special Operation during the war. He organized Dyak tribesmen as guerillas and help the Australian landings for which he won the DSO. She was Today, married to the daughter of Dr. Gerhadt Guttler, formerly secretary to Admiral Canaris, HItlers naval and secret service adviser, He is government ethnologist and Curator of the Sarawak Museum at Kuching. He has build upon of the finest museums in the Far East. Recent discoveries in the Niah cave in Borneo have earned his work a Gulbenkian Grant of -5, 000 in addition to -1, 000 from the government. The Harrison home is a fantastic place - almost a museum on its own. The walls and ceilings are lined and covered with his treasures collected in a life of travel in the East, when he led an Oxford University Expedition in Central Borneo; as well as in Lapland, New Hebrides, West Pacific and among the cannibals of Malekula, for which he received the Outhbert Peak award of the Roy. Geog. Society. His collection includes native scroll designs, mats, hats, Dyak parangs, musical instruments fans, stuffed birds, charms, idols and weapons. Mingled with these modern radiogram, a fridge and other articles of western civilization. Family pets of the Harrisona are two orangutang and some owls. This is one of a series of pictures showing the Harrisons an their unusual home, and with their pets. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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