Road making gangs of women at work in the forests. Ranching in the high upland county at the foot of the mountain. Views of Mount Kota Bellud. Husbandry with water buffaloes. Washing buffaloes in the river. High wire suspension pedestrian bridges over wide rivers. Young boys washing in the river. Horse fair. Journeys in canoes with outboard motors down narrow rivers and local fishing from out rigger canoes.

A cockfight. General panoramic scenery shots.

Production / Donor Details: These films were taken by Edmund Kennedy Wicksteed, 1916-1992. In the 1930s he worked as a customs officr in Malaya, was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various districts in Borneo. He returned to England in 1966 when Borneo became independent. He was awarded the CBE for colonial service.