Friday, December 12, 2008

Images From Our Colonial Past :The Woolley Collection Part III

Hantu Laut

George Cathcart Woolley(1876-1947), a former administrator 0f the North Borneo Chartered Company bequeathed an invaluable collection of photographs and other memorabilia dating to 1909.His collection provides an important record of people and events in Sabah's early history.The collection is known as The Woolley Bequest.

Below are some of the images from his collection.

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A Murut man 1909.













Harvesting padi 1915













Si Glamut, a Tagal Murut 1908.












A policeman of the British North Borneo Chartered Company Constabulary with his wife at Sipitang 1910.

More to come.

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