Village of the Stang tribe, Sarawak, Borneo; and a bridge of poles over a river

Two lithographed images, inverted to each other on one sheet, which forms one of eight loose items in Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855). Neither bear captions but one shows the longhouse-village of the Stang tribe of which ZBA4901 is the original inscribed drawing: the other, also probably in Borneo, shows a bridge of thin poles over a river. It is very probably a bridge which Fanshawe's party crossed after leaving the Stang village on 15 September 1845: 'We crossed a good specimen of a Dyak bridge, made of bamboo; and soon afterwards reached the village of the Sigu tribe' (Fanshawe [1904] p.137). It appears to have been close enough to be included in sketching which Fanshawe did on the morning of 16 September, before leaving the Stangs (see ZBA4904 and ZBA4909). The original drawing, not present in the scrapbook, was probably in Fanshawe's main Borneo and eastern album, whose whereabouts - or survival - are open questions at time of writing. It certainly existed, since one or two images from it are included in his 1904 biography. [PvdM 2/11]

Object Details

ID: ZBA4908
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Date made: after a drawing of September 1845; September 1846
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Primary support: 380 mm x 280 mm