Sea Dayak woman making thread, Borneo, SE Asia
A Sea Dayak (Dyak, Dayuh) or Iban woman in traditional costume making thread, Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire). She puts a mass of cotton fibre into a mangle, which extracts the seeds while she pulls away the fibre.
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Picture No
12018101
Media ID
47659348
Size
5289px x 3725px
(5.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.8, June 1922
Date
1922
