Wajah Sabah dulu-dulu

Ingin melihat wajah atau keadaan negeri kita ni di zaman silam?. Baru-baru ini sebuah buku atau mungkin tepat sebuah album gambar berjudul "The Spirit of Borneo" telah dilancarkan. Buku ini memuatkan gambar-gambar suasana kehidupan di Sandakan, sekitar tahun 1920 dan 1935, yang telah dirakam oleh sepasang pengembara suami-isteri dari Amerika Syarikat, Martin Johnson dan Osa. I haven't seen the book yet since it's only available at selected places and not for sale at bookstores. Lebih kurang beginilah wajah-wajah orang North Borneo dulu-dulu (semua foto di-scan dari artikel berhubung buku tersebut, di akhbar Daily Express)

Posing maut! pilihan model-model yang tepat :-)





"Water Vine" yang dikhabarkan sudah pupus

Handsome-handsome and pretty-pretty kan!

Based on reports about this couple adventures in North Borneo they met only the Rumanau and Tenggara (Tangara). Kalau tidak silap saya these sub-ethnics of Dusun mostly available di kawasan sekitar Labuk, Beluran, Telupid. Unfortunately only the Tenggaras are seen on photos but not the Rumanau (motif? camera shy mengkali kan). Kalau boleh mau juga bah tengok bagaimana penampilan other sub-ethnics dulu-dulu, especially the majority Bundu-Liwan :O. Pakai jeans mengkali kan..kekekek (loin-cloth bah juga..right?). Too bad this couple only reached areas along the Kinabatangan river yang entah berapa kilometer saja dari Sandakan. Berangan pula tu mau tengok 'headhunters' (hehe). Probably it's not too much to say that they ain't seen nothing yet...not even a glimpse of Mt. Kinabalu. But of course those photos they've taken are undeniably priceless. At least we have a glimpse of how our fellow Sabahans looked like in the past..kan!(reportedly 2,700 images altogether but only few hundred published in the book). Tapi kalau ndak silap kan, some of these images are being displayed in State Muzium.