Thursday, 29 June 2017

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Retro Photo of Ariel View of Kuching

Aerial View of Kuching Town circa 1920's.A few building and places we can recognized and still exist today,some are demolished and some have changes.Kuching Main Post Office on Jalan Tun Haji Openg only built on 1931,Completed in 1932 under Charles Vyner (the third Rajah). The site was once...

Friday, 9 June 2017

Thursday, 8 June 2017

Life in Long House

Dayak working on a platform attached to a long house, with left of them storage places for freshly harvested rice.Nowadays some Dayak Long House build with modern style and dont have this type of space anymore. (Circa 1931 :  Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculture...

Sungai Sarawak circa 1981

Pemandangan di Sungai Sarawak sekitar tahun 1981.Jika dibandingkan dengan sekarang (June 2017).Terdapat banyak perubahan yang kita boleh lihat dan bezakan ,antaranya 1.Bentuk Perahu Tambang - Rata-ratanya pada ketika ini banyak yang masih menggunakan kayuhan sahaja membelah Sungai Sarawak.Berbanding...

Borneo woven basket for crops

Borneo Woven Basket for crops.Local people call it Tambok or Sedong.This basket usually for heavy duties items like putting Farm Produce like vegetables,fruits and sometime animals.Usually this basket made from rattan,but nowadays they make it from Plastic and nylon to make it more heavy duty and...

Kelabit Girls with Bead and Tattos

All Kalabit women are tattooed when they reach the age of sixteen. Bold zigzag bands are traced on the forearm, not completely encircling the limb, and strikingly decorative geometrical designs are tattooed on the thigh, the shin, and sometimes, on the knee-cap. They wear strings of large blue beads...

The Long Gallery Inside the Kayan Long House at Baram

The Long Gallery of the family house as a common residence for its occupants. A house in the average size takes up about two hundred inhabitants, it is built in a rectangle, about three hundred and fifty feet long, and sometimes in the middle of its length passing through a wall into halves, one of...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Kalimantan Railway connecting to Kuching

I manage to dig some old photo showing Kalimantan Railway Project.One of the routes,connecting Sambas to Kuching.. So..use your imagination hehehe.. maybe the LRT part connect to this route,from what i heard few years back,probably Kalimantan Route will ended at Lundu as that town nearest to Sambas.....