Title	B-30.61.042
Description	Annotation translation: "Only Dajaks and Chinese know how to [or perhaps: "are allowed to"] catch huge snakes and prepare their skin. Muslims are forbidden to touch such unclean animals. Here a chinese has killed a huge snake with tobacco (i.e. by stuffing it into its mouth) and hopes to receive about 15 Dutch Guilders for it. Catching large snakes is often very dangerous. People catch them with folding nets, or even with their bare hands. Selling snake skin has brought many a dayak substantial sums of money. But the trade is disadvantageious for agriculture, since rats and mice increase rapidly if their main predator, the snakes have been decimated."; Annotation: "Nur Dajak und Chinesen können Riesenschlangen fangen & die Häute preparieren. Für die Mohamedaner ist es verboten, die unreinen Tiere anzurühren. Hier hat ein Chinese eine Riesenschlange mit Tabak getötet (in's Maul gestopft) & hofft für die Haut etwa 15.-holl. Gulden zu erlangen. Der Fang der Riesenschlangen ist oft sehr gefährlich & geschieht mit Klappnetzen oder einfach mit der Hand. Der Handel mit Schlangenhäuten hat manchem Dajak grossen Gewinn gebracht. Die Landwirtschaft hat den Nachteil, da sich Mäuse & Ratten rasend vermehrten, weil ihr grösster Feind, die Riesenschlange, vernichtet wurde."; Stamped: "Museum der Basler Mission Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."
Subject (bmpixs)	snake veranda zoological scene
Geographic subject (region)	Kalimantan {region}
Coverage date	1932/1938
Photographer (bmpixn)	Zimmer, Woldemar (Mr)
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1932/1938
Type	images
Format	b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver; 8.8 x 11.8 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m21656
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of official series	"South East Borneo. Secular themes. 1 a Landscapes, (Landscapes, photos of geographical interest, plants and animals). B. Buildings, places.
Part of repository	mission 21 / Basel Mission
Reference number	B-30.61.042
Same image reference number	QB-30.101.0013
References	impa-m33200
Rights	All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images -- both individuals and organisations -- to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Filename	impa-abmpix-1308
Archival file	impa_Volume31/impa-abmpix-1308.tiff

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