Images of Island Southeast Asia in the Wellcome Collection View fullsize Two Kayans wrestling in Sarawak. 30512i© Wellcome Collection Images of Island Southeast Asia in the Wellcome Collection CLICK TO EXPLORE THE COLLECTION View fullsize A Javanese girl dancing with long scarves tied to her waist. Colored aquatint by W. Daniell, 1817. 34308i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Three hunters with a dead leopard, Dutch East Indies (Java or Indonesia). Colored lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839. 677820i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Durian, flowering and fruiting branch, section of fruit and numbered sections of flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, ca. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten. 16342i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize A herald of Amarassie, Timor, Dutch East Indies. Colored lithograph by A.S. Mulder after P.A. van Oort, ca. 1839. 677823i © Wellcome Collection View fullsize A woman seated next to a half-opened canopied area. Colored lithograph by C.F. Kell after Carl Bock, ca. 1881? 677866i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travelers in Java. Colored aquatint, between 1800 and 1899. 726189i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Javanese people playing gamelan. Engraving, ca. 1646. 34071i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Javanese dancers with men on the left and women on right, accompanied by a musician. Engraving by T. de Bry, ca. 1590-1599. 34298i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Three views of Merapi volcano, Java. Lithographs by W.J. Gordon after P. van Oort and Q. Ver Huell. 43922i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving. 21386i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744. 42072i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Coconuts and trees, a cinnamon tree, and pinang tree in a tropical landscape. Line engraving after J. Nieuhoff, 1682. 20315i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize An enslaved woman in Bali, standing with a cloth in her hands and a wide hat on her head. Engraving by C. de Bruyn, ca. 1700-1799. 37901i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Wooden carving of Bali Atap, the Tutelary Deity of a Sibop village, Sarawak. 31440i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize A peace-making ceremony at Claudetown between the Baram and Batang, two Kayan tribes in Sarawak. 30776i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Malay Chiefs, Mindanao. The phrenological journal, 1899.© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. 31646i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Two Sea Dayaks at a cockfight in Sarawak. 30501i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize Interior of a Kayan tribal house in Sarawak. 31541i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize A captive owl (Photodilus badius). 31673i© Wellcome Collection View fullsize A Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose (1863-1929). 663405i© Wellcome Collection Wellcome Collection183 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom News 15Editorial TeamJuly 21, 2025Art of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 Pinterest0 0 Likes
