Sarawak Gallery

Rhacophorus, Tree frog

Tree Frog from Sarawak. Drawing of a tree frog by Alfred Russel Wallace - hand coloured. Drawn looking down onto the back of the frog spread out showing webbed feet. Writing in the bottom left hand corner Rhacophorus n s, Treefrog sarawak (a little under natural size). In right hand corner Back & limbs dark green, beneath and under toes yel, web black at base, yellow taged? at margins, legs not at all banded, glossy dark uniform green

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

Jetty to Balawai Village on the banks of the Rejang River, Sarakei district

Jetty to Balawai Village on the banks of the Rejang River, Sarakei district, Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

© Annie Owen

Asia, Balawai Village, Bank, Blue, Board Walk, Cloud, Cloudy Sky, Color Image, Horizontal, Jetty, Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo, Outdoors, People In The Background, Photography, Rejang River, River, Sarakei District, Sarawak, Sibu, Southeast Asia, Travel, Travel Destinations, Water, Wooden

Sarawak's Hundred Years under rule of White Rajahs

Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on a centenary of rule of the state of Sarawak in Malaysia by white rajahs, beginning in 1838 with James Brooke. He is shown top left while the rajah in 1941, the year of the centenary, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. Other photographs show native inhabitants, particularly the distinctive hair cuts and tattoos of the Dyak. Date: 1941

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans