PHOTO OF THE DAY September 11, 2004  

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Where Sarawak state, Borneo, Malaysia
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

A Penan woman weaves inside a shelter in a government settlement camp. As logging on Borneo island decimates the forests, the nomadic Penan drift toward settlement camps.

(Text adapted from "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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