Stages in the manufacture of Sea Dyak cloth. Spinning the thread
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148 x 104 mm. Showing an Iban woman operating a wooden spinning wheel. The photograph is from: Hose, Charles and Shelford, Robert (1900), 'Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak'. Harpenden: Valentine and Co. The photograph also appears in: Gomes, Edwin H. (1911) 'Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. London, p.128. In this volume it is subtitled: 'She is seated on a mat, in a characteristic attitude and is making yarn out of the cotton, using a primitive spinning wheel'. Also in: Hose, Charles and McDougall, William (1912), 'The pagan tribes of Borneo'. Volume 1. London, p.218. Photograph taken circa 1900 by Hose and Shelford.
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Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge.