M0005529: Sacrificial poles outside a Kenyah village

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Mounted reproduction of a photograph of two poles erected outside a Kenyah village. According to the caption, the heads of enemies were hung on the taller post, called Belawing, and pieces of flesh of slain enemies were hung from the shorter pole. The photograph was original published in Hose, Charles: <i>The pagan tribes of Borneo</i>, volume II, London, 1912. A print of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10795).

M0005529: Sacrificial poles outside a Kenyah village

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