Picture No | 12018101 |
Date | 1922 |
Description | Sea Dayak woman making thread, Borneo, SE Asia |
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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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Source | Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.8, June 1922 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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