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• Sitting on stairs to house
  On reverse: Detail of Semai house (1). Porch and stairs. Note the flattened bamboo wall and the sliding door of bamboo slats. Porch and door are optional. The woman on the steps is playing the Karab, a two-stringed lute. Chaba' Jinter, Pahang, 1962.
• Building house
  On reverse: Building the house (5) Laying the floor
• Goat house
  On reverse: Goat house (3) A side view of the second goat house. Notice the wing on the house in background. Such wings are a frequent feature of Semai houses in this area, representing an intermediate form between the longhouses of the Temiar to the north and the nuclear family. one-pitch houses of Perak.
• Goat house
  On reverse: Goat house (2) The other goat house at Chaba' Jinter. Front view. 1962.
• Detail of house
  On reverse: Detail of Semai house (3) Interior of S's old house after the thatch had been removed.
• Kids on porch
  On reverse: Details of Semai house (2) Floor, porch and stairs. Chaba Jinter, 1962.
• Detail of house
  On reverse: Detail of Semai house (4). Another view of S's old house. Bamboo water tubes are stacked in one corner. A backbasket (raga') lies on the floor. A water gourd (labu' teio, Lagenaria vulgaris; also called labu' s l in a a cultivar whose fruit and leaf are eaten) is on a shelf in the background. Seed maize hangs from the rafters. An earthen hearth is in the right foreground.
• Houses along river
  On reverse: Semai houses (1). The northern part of the settlement at Chaba Jinter whose southern half is pictured in Dentan (1968:16). Two men in the foreground are poling a raft (rakid) to the settlement across the Telom River. 1962.
• Houses along river
  On reverse: Semai houses (3) The small settlement across the Telom from Chaba Jinter. Rafts in foreground.
• Semai houses
  On reverse: Semai houses (2) Looking northward in Chaba' Jinter. Notice that the roof poles in the farthest house extend to the ground and that smoke billows from its chimneyless roof. 1962.
• Semai house
  On reverse: Semai houses (5) Endview of a longhouse at Chaba' Jinter. 1962
• Semai house
  On reverse: Semai houses (4) A nuclear family house at Chaba' Jinter. The poles extending from the roof offset the steep slope to the river. 1962
• Sitting on ramp to house
• Young man with large snake
• Group around house
  On reverse: Semai long house of the early 1940's. Seems to be transitional between a temporary shelter and the standard house of the 1960's. Cameron Highlands, Perak, Photograph courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History
• Framework of house
  On reverse: Framework of a Semai house For a nuclear family, Chaba' Jinter, Pahang, 1962
• Weaving shingle
  On reverse: Weaving an attap shingle. Chaba' Jinter, Pahang, 1962.
• Man with shelters
  On reverse: Temporary shelters. The single-pitched shelters of a migrant Semai-band resemble those of the hunting and gathering "Semang" people who live to the north and east of the Semai. Photogrph by Fay Cooper Cole, courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History
• Dog
  On reverse: Aboriginal dog. This jackal-colored dog is of the breed owned by the Semai aboriginally, although this specimen belongs to the Orang Laut, another group of Malayan aborigines.
• Hut
  On reverse: Goat house (1). A house built for a half dozen goats in Chaba Jinter. 1962
• Group by water
• Dark photo
  On reverse: I don't know what this is. Can we get a B+W of it? (2 shots)
• Man building house
  On reverse: Building the house (4) Tying on the roof pole
• Building house
  On reverse: Building the house (3) Trimming the upright
• Building house
  On reverse: Building the house (2) Tying on pole to support shingles.