Mrs Harrison with orang outang Bobby, Kuching

Feb. 26 Orang Outangs are Family Pets in Sarawak: Mrs. Harrison nurses Bobby in their Kuching garden: Sarawak Museum Curator 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 organised Dyak tribesmen as guerrillas and helped the Australian landings for which he won the DSO. He was today married to the daughter of Dr. Gerhardt Guttler, formerly secretary to Admiral Canaris, Hitler's naval and secret service adviser, he is Government Ethnologist and Curator of the Sarawak Museum at Kuching. He was built upon on the finest museums in the Far East. Recent discoveries in the Niah cave in Borneo have earned 21, 000 for the Government. The Harrison home is a fantastic place- almost a museum on its own. The walls and ceilings are lined and covered with 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 Cuthbert Peak Award of the Royal Geographical Society. His collection includes native scroll designs, mats, hats, Dyak parangs, musical instruments, fans, stuffed birds, charms, idols and weapons. Mingled with these are a modern radiogram, a fridge and other articles of western civilisation. Family pets of the Harrisons are Two Orang Outangs and some owls. This is one of a series of pictures showing the Harrisons in their unusual home, and with their pets

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