September 18th, 2010 -- by Dr. Faustus
Lucky Governor
Bacchus’s recent photographic foray into what is now Indonesia sent me to a dusty back shelf of my own library to dig out this:
That’s Malcolm MacDonald, the Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South East Asia, with two distaff representatives of the Dayak people, published in John Drysdale’s Singapore: Struggle for Success. Drysdale doesn’t give an exact date for the photograph, but MacDonald was a high colonial official in Southeast Asia between 1946 and 1955. He had a reputation for informality and fraternizing (ahem) with non-Europeans, which offended his fellow colonialists no end.
Sounds like he had a good job.
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This was probably photographed in Sarawak in Borneo, now part of Malaysia. At the time, this would have been high formal wear for Dayak women.
Reminds me of forays into back issues of National Geographic in the Junior High library…