Around Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, Malaysia, December 1998

View of Kuching from Fort Margherita. Margherita was the wife of the Rajah of Sarawak, James Brooke

Downtown Kuching, which means cat in Malay

Sarawak museum: has many animals collected by Alfred Russell Wallace

Sarawak wood carvings

Sarawak Cultural Village: Penan compound. The Cultural Village has displays of many Sarawak ethnic groups-including their traditional houses and skulls

Iban tattoo tools: the Iban were the notorious headhunters of Sarawak