Cultural History In Focus | “Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940” by Bernard Sellato

A Dayak bearer at a place of sacrifice along the river
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Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940

by Bernard Sellato

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This article is generously provided by Bernard Sellato.

A Papuan bird chaser from the coastal area and a Dayak rower in Northern New Guinea during the Central New Guinea Expedition of 1920-'21
Jan Jongejans
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Portrait of a Dayak porter from the area around the Batang Lupar River, 1909-1910
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Dayak porters in a half-finished pirogue in the Lorentz River near Bivouac Island
Dr. Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
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Two Dayak porters on the Wilhelminatop during the Third South New Guinea Expedition
P.F. Hubrecht
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Portrait of two Kayan-Dayak girls making music with flute and mouth harp, Upper Mahakam area of Central Borneo, 1898-1900
Jean Demmeni
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Group portrait with Kenyah Dayak porters from the third South New Guinea expedition and the local Nduga Papua population
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Dayak bearers in the Rain Island bivouac, flooded by the river during heavy rain
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Bowsprit and a Dayak during the Third South New Guinea Expedition
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Portrait of two Dayak porters on board the expedition ship 'Arend'
Dr. Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
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The grave of a daughter of a Kenyah Dayak prince, 1898-1900
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Portrait of the Kayan Dayak bearer Mering Loewang carving bamboo
Dr. Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
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Kayan Dayaks while making offerings between the poles of the house under construction for village chief Kwing Irang in Long Bloeoe, Upper Mahakam, 1898-1900
Jean Demmeni
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Two Dayak porters transport a pig in Bivouac Alkmaar
Dr. Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
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A Dayak porter with a helmeted cassowary on his back on board one of the expedition ships
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'The Kayans are towed to Van Weelskamp with their pirogues. Middle proa Bankwin. September 1912'
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The Lobang Kubang, Upper Mahakam, 1898-1900
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Portrait of a Dayak bearer with an earring made from the beak of a helmeted hornbill
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The front porch of the house under construction for the Kayan Dayak village chief Kwing Irang in Long Bloeoe, Upper Mahakam, 1898-1900
Jean Demmeni
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Kayan Dayak men making a pirogue along the river, Upper Mahakam, 1898-1900
Jean Demmeni
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Bernard Sellato

Bernard Sellato is a geologist (MSc 1973) and anthropologist (PhD 1987), former director (1999-2004) of the Institute of Research on Southeast Asia (IRSEA, now IrASIA) in Marseilles, France, and editor (1999-2008) of the journal Moussons. Social Science Research on Southeast Asia.

He currently is a Senior Researcher (emeritus), Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CNRS, EHESS, INaLCO), PSL Research University, Paris. He published a dozen books, including Hornbill and Dragon. Arts and Cultures of Borneo (1989, 1992), Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest (1989, 1994), and Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest (2012), as well as a large number of articles and book chapters.