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There are 34 pictures here, 3 from Bario, 2 from my major trip. I have 42 pictures from Bario and 15 from the hike on my Webshots Gallery.
I taught English here for two years. It is a Government boarding school.
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| School View 1 | School View 2 | Open Classroom |
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| Rice as a Staple | Student Dorm | Portrait of the artist as a Young Man |
The town, seven miles from our school.
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| Saratok Town | Penny Candy |
Ibans (EE-bahns) were the predominant racial group in Saratok. European anthropologists called them "Dayaks" or "Sea Dayaks". Many of them practiced slash-and-burn agriculture. Their children went to GSS Saratok.
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| Front of a Longhouse | Back of a Longhouse | Main Hall - Ruai |
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| Skulls | Another Ruai | Getting Tattooed |
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| Iban maiden | Uncomfortable Ibans |
This was how you went places in the Second Division, if the people you wanted to see were not on the bus line.
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| Going Upriver | River Scene | Ibans in Dugout |
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| Town Wharf | Bales of Rubber | Small Town |
The Malays are sizable minorities in Sarawak. There is no way to explain an entire people in a few pictures.
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| Malay House | Malay Ladies |
Sibu was the city nearest to Saratok; I got there once or twice per school term.
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| Express Launch | Wharf at Sibu | Fruit Vendor |
I flew to Bario, in the Kelabit Highlands, on the break between the 1971 and 1972 school years. After a very pleasant stay I walked through the jungle for eight days to Lioh Matoh, where the Baram River becomes navigable. Then I took a longboat to Marudi. The trip was the high point of my two years in Sarawak.
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| Kelabit Elder | Rice Fields | Kelabit Lady |
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| Kelabit Dancers | A Punan | Riverboat at Sunset |
This is the only picture here taken in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak.
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| Sunset in Kuching |