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PHOTO OF THE DAY June 1, 2004  

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

Asik, the headman of a nomadic band of the Penan people, stokes the fire at his family group's temporary home. Of the approximately 7,000 Penan, fewer than 300 are nomadic today.

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

Gallery—Malaysia's Secret Realm
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