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PHOTO OF THE DAY March 7, 2004  

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

A Penan family builds a traditional temporary shelter from palm fronds, saplings, and rattan. A lamin takes only about an hour to build, but lasts a month.

(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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