1909 Print Sarawak Dayak Woman Borneo Mourning Ring Gronong Rattan Nude XGDB7 Canada Small tear No water damage

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This is a small original 1898 black and white print ad for the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford

1909 Print Sarawak Dayak Woman Borneo Mourning Ring Gronong Rattan Nude XGDB7 Canada Small tear No water damageThis is an original 1909 black and white halftone print of a Sarawak Dayak woman in Borneo. She is wearing what the caption indicates is a "mourning ornament" which was actually called a gronong. Made of rattan and brass rings, the Dayak women would wear these at all times, some would have such a large amount that the gronongs would resemble a corset. The Dayak people are an indigenous culture of some infamy in Borneo. Their reputation for fierceness