Barbara Guttler Brunig Harrisson: 1922-2015.

Heimann, Judith M.

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Barbara, dressed usually in those days in khaki slacks, and often holding a demanding orangutan baby in her arms or astride her hip, was my neighbor in Kuching, Sarawak, when we first met in the mid 1960s. (I was there with my husband John Heimann, who was the American Consul for East Malaysia and Brunei.) Barbara's husband was Tom Harrisson, OBE, DSO--an often drunk and obstreperous, always original polymath, who was then completing 20+ years as Sarawak Government Ethnologist and Curator of the small but historic Sarawak Museum that he had turned into a world-class institution of use to scholars in anthropology, ornithology, paleontology, animal conservation and art history, among other fields.

Barbara was quiet, discreet, the opposite of self-promoting, and seldom spoke about herself. And so it took me decades to learn much about her remarkable life.

In fact, it was the remarkable life of her--by then late--ex-husband that drew me to her in 1986 when I went to see her in Friesland, Netherlands, where she was by then curator of the Netherlands' best museum of porcelain, the Princessehof. I went to ask her if anybody had written a full biography of the late Tom Harrisson. (He had died in a road accident in Thailand alongside his last wife in 1976.) Barbara said that nobody had written a whole book about Tom. She urged me to write one, and added: "If you like, I shall write to all his family and oldest friends and tell them to tell you everything." The resulting biography (1) could never have been written without her help.

By the mid 1960s when she and Tom were our neighbors in Kuching, Tom had spent the previous decade always making news (when he wasn't causing scandal by his drunken brawls and riotous behavior) finding ways to expand what the Sarawak Museum did, such as: greatly enhance its collection of all sorts of artifacts; arrange the conduct of a gigantic survey of Borneo's birds; explore, with the help of guest scientists, how to protect the endangered Green Sea Turtle and the native orangutans; promote Sarawak's artists, traditional and contemporary; collect for the Sarawak Museum and the Brunei Museum rare ancient Chinese porcelain; and--in his biggest, longest-term, most ambitious project, look for signs of early man and of Borneo's prehistory in the great Niah Caves.

For all these activities--and many others--Tom's instinct for self-publicity led to his making brilliant television documentaries about man and nature in Borneo, to his becoming a pioneer member in global conservation groups such as the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to helping Brunei and Sabah create museums of their own, and to giving amusing and informative weekly talks on Radio Sarawak. His most effective publicity tool, however, was the Sarawak Museum Journal, which he edited, transforming it into the liveliest museum journal anywhere in Asia. Cannily distributing it free of charge to the leading scholars and politicians in the English-speaking world, he attracted funding for his Borneo-based activities from institutions and wealthy individual donors worldwide.

But what few outsiders knew, and I only learned gradually, was that without Barbara most of the grand projects Tom started would have foundered for lack of follow-through. At one point, years after leaving Borneo, Barbara told a friend: "I loved Tom. The best way to make myself indispensable to him was to share his work and make it more effective." That she did.

Trained in art history in Germany before the War, and growing up among beautiful things belonging to her well-born Prussian family, Barbara had an instinct for how best to display the ceramics the Sarawak Museum already had, and the beautiful shell collection that the museum acquired in the 1960s. She went over the drafts of the Sarawak Museum Journal to assure they would be a credit to the museum. She trained herself--and then the museum's staff and interns from Brunei and Sabah--how to sort out the thousands of ceramic shards found in old riverbeds in Sarawak, Brunei, and Sabah.

She soothed the wounded feelings of visiting scholars and local staff whom Tom had offended. She even got Tom to cut down his drinking for several of his most productive years.

She gladly took over the care of orphaned orangutans of which Tom was theoretically in charge, and pioneered a program for returning some of them to life in the jungle. This was the project that won her heart and led to her writing her first solo book, Orang-utan (2), by which she first became known to the world outside.

She also helped Tom and his friend Hugh Gibb film six TV documentaries for the BBC and three for Granada on every conceivable Borneo subject. These films were shot on location between 1957 and 1960. By 1959 Barbara was doing all the filming for Granada herself, after Hugh went home and Tom went off to do other things in Borneo and abroad.

Most crucially, in terms of follow-through, Barbara took over from Tom the logistics of supplying and running the Niah Caves project. The Great Cave of Niah, which could have swallowed London's St. Paul's Cathedral, had been dismissed as a possible site for ancient remains of man by the scientific establishment--starting with Alfred Russel Wallace in the 1850s and including the discoverer of Java Man Professor Ralph von Koenigswald and Dr. Peter Bellwood, the acknowledged expert on early man in Southeast Asia and Australasia at the time of the Harrissons' Niah project. Nonetheless, with a large grant from the Gulbenkian foundation and a lot of in-kind support from Brunei Shell, Tom was determined to look in the Great Cave for a fossil of early man, ideally the missing link between Neanderthal and modern man.

Typically, however, Tom, by early 1958, was away from the site most of the time, leaving Barbara in charge to bring what Lord Cranbrook witnessed as "her customary order to the organization of camp life and the practicalities of field archeology and careful record keeping."

Thus it was Barbara and not Tom who was present when workers came to ask her to look at a partially exposed skull they had found in the area the diggers called "Hell" at a level comparable with a C14 age of roughly 40,000 years B.P. By happenstance, Tom arrived the next day with the famous Professor von Koenigswald, who told Barbara and Tom: "But this is nothing! This is modern man!" The great expert had missed the fact that this "modern man"--in fact, it was a young woman--was the oldest fully modern man in the world to have been found up to that date, older than Cro-Magnon man.

That fact and the authenticity of the Niah Skull would be contested till long after Tom's death. Luckily, Barbara was still alive to learn that the "Deep Skull" of Niah was determined by a Cambridge University team, using scientific methods that had not been available earlier, to date from around 35,000 B.P., the date Tom had claimed for it. (Meanwhile, between the Deep Skull's discovery and the Cambridge authentication of it, older remains of modern man were found elsewhere in Australasia.)

A thorough and tireless scholar herself, (3) Barbara was one of the most generous people I have ever met in helping others accomplish their own research goals. In the splendid "appreciation" of Barbara for this year's Sarawak Museum Journal by Lord Cranbrook--who knew her longer then I did--he assembles recollections of her by family, friends, colleagues, and later scholars, and the word generous pops up repeatedly as they describe her help to them and others.

Her scholarly generosity extended not only to academics seeking her help with the research for which they would gain doctorates and academic acclaim, but also to yet unknown scholars and researchers in the future who might be able to use the information she had so intelligently and painstakingly assembled in the late 1950s. The Cambridge team that in the year 2000 began to do the work that proved the record-breaking age of the Niah Skull depended upon the field notes, photos, and maps she had made almost fifty years earlier while at Niah and at the Sarawak Museum. Ryan Rabett, one of the Cambridge team, recalled to Lord Cranbrook, "Though primarily self-taught, her archeological excavation strategies and interpretation of stratigraphy and chronology ... provided a solid foundation from which she was able to evaluate and interpret" the Niah finds and gave "the baseline data for the re-interpretation" of the 1950s and 1960s Niah excavations.

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Professor Graeme Barker, who organized and headed the Cambridge re-examination of Niah just wrote me to confirm that:

   in February 1958, Barbara Harrisson oversaw the excavation, in the
   West Mouth of Niah Great Cave, the most important fossil human ever
   found in Borneo and still one of the oldest examples of Homo
   sapiens found outside Africa. In later years she excavated a series
   of later Stone Age (Neolithic) human burials in the West Mouth, the
   largest cemetery of such burials in Southeast Asia. The many
   articles published by Tom and Barbara Harrisson on these and other
   discoveries in the caves gave 'Niah' an iconic status in world
   archeology that the site has kept ever since.

Graeme adds that when he was negotiating with the Sarawak archeological authorities in the late 1990s to conduct a new program of excavation at Niah, Barbara promptly provided full support and offers of help for the work that began in 2000. "As well as providing invaluable insights into Tom Harrisson's thinking as their excavations developed--in particular an inspirational visit to meet the team at a workshop in Cambridge in 2004--she generously supported the restudy of the Neolithic burials in the West Mouth and other Niah caves by Lindsay Lloyd-Smith for his Cambridge Ph.D., advising him on her copious and detailed excavation archive of notebooks, drawings, and photographs.

   Before she left Sarawak in 1967, she had published a major report
   on her discoveries that remains a benchmark study to this day,
   though she regarded it as a provisional classification only. And
   she was enormously generous and supportive as Lindsay teased out
   further important insights from her records. She insisted that
   Lindsay stay with her at Jelsum on his regular visits to consult
   her, so that not a moment would be wasted in their discussions.

Lindsay adds that he:

   and his bride Borbala Nyiri stayed with Barbara in Jelsum for a
   week in January 2007, mid-way through Lindsay's doctoral research.
   Later that year Borbala started working with Martaban jars on
   Borneo--the topic of Barbara's own doctoral research at Cornell in
   the 1970s, based upon the collections in the Sarawak, Sabah, and
   Brunei Museums; the 1986 publication of which (Pusaka: Heirloom
   jars of Borneo) remains the main reference work for this wondrous
   group of objects. This body of work not only reflects her rigorous
   approach in interrogating the historical record (incorporating
   English, Dutch and German sources) but also her broad vision to
   understand jars from an insular, archaeological and ethnographic
   perspective in contrast to conventional ceramicist studies at the
   time--that were concerned primarily with the dating of vessels.
   Five years later, Borbala herself started her Ph.D. on Martaban
   jars, and like Lindsay before her, sought and obtained Barbara's
   advice, insight and perspective.

Lindsay concludes:

   Right until the end of her long and eventful life, Barbara was
   eager to hear from young researchers, and always happy to have
   visitors to talk about the archaeology and tradeware ceramics of
   Southeast Asia, and many other related topics.

Another example of Barbara's generosity comes from an unrelated field: the study and protection of orangutans. Birute Mary Galdikas, the best-known person in the world today working to protect orangutans and restore orangutans to the wild wrote me recently that the late Louis Leakey had introduced her to Barbara in 1971 when Barbara was working on her doctorate on Chinese export-ware porcelain at Cornell, before Birute left for Borneo. She writes me "Barbara was extremely helpful in the early days of my orangutan study" which became Birute 's life's work. Devoting a whole day to her guest, Barbara gave Birute "very useful, practical advice" on how to proceed with her project in the jungle.

   Barbara was our first international visitor to Camp Leakey in the
   forests of Central Indonesian Borneo. Once she saw our living
   conditions, she donated her own money, saying nobody should live as
   my then husband, Rod Brindamour, and I were living: in a
   bark-walled hut with a leaky thatch roof. She wanted us to build a
   proper little wooden house. After her visit, she contacted the
   Leakey Foundation in California and persuaded the foundation to
   fund us monthly for several years.

   What impressed her was our habituation and observation of wild
   orangutans, as well as the fact that at the time we were raising
   several rescued ex-captive orangutans (who crowded her off the
   mattress on the floor where she was sleeping) for return to the
   wild.

Birute sums up:

   Barbara Harrisson was an authentic, charismatic, generous person
   who believed in the work we were doing and who supported us at a
   tough time. The orangutan and forest conservation and research
   efforts that we continue in Borneo, through the Orangutan
   Foundation International (OFI) which we subsequently established,
   owe quite a bit to the strong support she gave us in the early days
   over forty- five years ago.

What seems clear is that Barbara, once interested in a subject, never lost that interest; she was always setting things up for use in the future, by herself or by others. A half century after leaving Kuching, she welcomed Ipoi Datan, the present Director of the Sarawak Museum, and others, into her house in Jelsum, happy to share her memories, knowledge, and insight into the workings of Sarawak Museum during the time Tom Harrisson was its prolific Director.

Always thinking long-term, she sought out ways to preserve records and pass on knowledge that other scholars might be able to use. After leaving Borneo, she gave an orangutan specialist friend, Herman Rijksen, "several boxes and maps containing her orangutan archive, to have it preserved at an official archive; I deposited the stash at the Hoogerwerff Library of the University of Leiden (via the State Herbarium) which contained all former archives on wildlife conservation."

Similarly, her work on Chinese export-ware continued to help colleagues at the Princessehof with whom she collaborated on their publications up to the time of her death last December.

To my mind, however, Barbara's scholarly achievements and generosity are matched and possibly even overshadowed by her astonishing personal courage, both physical and moral. Raised as the only girl with three brothers in a bourgeois, wealthy Prussian family, it is not surprising that she took the back seat in her parents' affections, who were disappointed she was not a boy; nor is it surprising for those days that she was bullied by her brothers, nor that she was frequently slapped hard across the face by her mother for such sins as letting the door slam when she closed it. What is surprising is that she recognized from very young what were her parents' and siblings' strengths and weaknesses, and did her best to be a loyal, loving, reliable, and discreet member of that family.

The two older boys died as soldiers in World War II but the youngest brother, Conny, the baby of the family, in his early teens, was saved from going off to die on the Eastern Front in the last days of the Third Reich because Barbara risked her own life to save his. In her early 20s, she had already become a first-class typist and spoke good French and English and thus was working in Paris at the secretariat of the Abwehr (Military Intelligence) Chief Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; there she coolly fished out a form that she could doctor to make possible the removal of Conny from Berlin into the safe obscurity of a farm in Bavaria run by friends of a great uncle.

When, years later, Conny thanked her for saving his life, at first she could not remember what he was talking about. She had long since forgotten the incident. She had also forgotten having dressed like a man to avoid unwanted attentions from the brutal Soviet conquerors in the early postwar days in Berlin, before she and her mother, lacking food and heat, were bedbound by cholera--from which they both recovered. But they could not recover their family's fortune, consisting chiefly of gold mines in Silesia, in what had by then become Communist Poland.

Shortly after the war, Barbara came to know a young German of good family, but no money, Eberhard Brunig; while he got a degree in forestry, Barbara worked to support them both. When he was offered a position as a forestry officer in the British Colonial Service, based in Kuching, Sarawak, northwestern Borneo, they married and went off to Borneo together in 1953. In provincial Kuching, Barbara looked for something to do with her spare time (with no children yet and her husband often upcountry) and found it working as a volunteer secretary at the Sarawak Museum.

The museum's curator, Tom Harrisson, was away on home leave when Barbara began work at the museum. When he returned to Kuching in June 1954, he noticed the pretty brunette in his outer office, a youngish woman who radiated intelligence and competence. Tom had long been looking for a collaborator to share the joy of his discoveries and the work that would ensue. He had been looking for a man, but here was this remarkable woman. He courted her shamelessly and with ultimate success. Unable to say no to "the most amusing man I ever met," Barbara soon confessed the affair to her husband and went back to Germany to obtain a divorce, taking all the blame upon herself. As soon as the divorce was final, Tom met her in London, where they married in March 1956; she was 33, Tom was eleven years older and already divorced from his first wife. Upon returning promptly to Sarawak, Barbara moved into Tom's house and immediately became his colleague as well as his wife. She was under no illusions about her new husband's failings nor about her ability to change them much, but she was fully committed to going through life at the side of this extraordinary man.

Her physical courage amazes me. In the late 1950s, walking along the long, narrow plank walk- with no handholds--that ran from the Niah Caves to the nearest river port, Barbara was not unnerved by the big reptiles--snakes and crocodiles--that she could see below. Nor did she hesitate to move to the very edge of the plank walk to let the native collectors go past, carrying their heavy sacks of guano or swifts' nests, (the latter for the birds' nest soup world market).

Caring for un-caged, playful orangutan young adults was something else that would rightly frighten most people. Barbara makes light of the danger in her book Orang-utan, but even she admits in her draft memoir (yet to be published), that orangutans "have four limbs of steel, two fists, and two feet to grab and hold you, and a mighty jaw to threaten you." She was always their fearless friend and protector. One of her saddest memories was when her favorite orangutan orphan, Arthur (4), was killed when he came back to a new camp in Sabah from which he had run away. One of the men in charge of orangutans at the new camp in Sabah did not recognize Arthur, felt threatened, and shot him dead.

I find Barbara's moral courage to be even more impressive. I think especially of the way she picked up the pieces of her life when Tom unexpectedly abandoned her in 1969 to live in Europe with a newly met rich Belgian baroness, leaving Barbara stranded at Cornell University with virtually no money and no prospects of employment.

By then, fortunately, the Cornell people recognized her quality and her great contribution to the expertise that had gained Tom his three-year senior research associate university position--that would normally expire in 1970. They invited her to take over Tom's abandoned classes, and offered her a fellowship to obtain a doctorate in art history drawing on her unrivalled knowledge of the great Chinese jars that the native people of Borneo's interior prized as their greatest treasures.

Once again, she more than met her commitments, as well as Tom's. A few years later, her Cornell mentors were happy to be asked to recommend her for the sought-after job of director of the prestigious Princessehof, the Netherlands' most important museum of porcelain, where she served many years. Upon retiring nearby, to a charming, small house set in a garden made lovelier and more exotic by her efforts, she kept up with all her interests and was invariably hospitable and generous to all the scholars who came to pick her brain.

She became a favorite resident of her small Frisian village, Jelsum, and her neighbors gladly helped her to manage the last years of her life with the courage she had always shown. By the end, having had several heart attacks and falls, and having gone almost totally blind, she was nonetheless able to live alone with dignity in her pretty, tidy house because she had shown her neighbors how to help her buy groceries and then put them always in the same place in her kitchen so that she could find them with her fingers.

For her last major project, that of drafting a memoir of her long, varied life, her fingers still recalled how to touch-type, a skill she had learned in the War years. After she was wholly blind, a young IT-savvy neighbor, Imco Veenstra, got in the habit of checking on her computer-produced drafts to make sure that her texts made sense. When they didn't, he could figure out where her fingering had gone wrong--a key too far left or right--and would correct the text to conform with what she had meant to type. Clearly, she must have earned the love and care her neighbors so freely dispensed to her.

A favorite niece, Erika Hundt, would come from Germany to help her occasionally rework the memoir manuscript, and I visited her overnight every couple of years and phoned her once every month or two. I spoke to her by phone on Christmas Eve and she told me she had just had another heart attack. We agreed she would probably recover again; she seemed her usual cheerful and indomitable self. She died at home two days later, on December 26, 2015, leaving a surprisingly big hole in many lives, including mine.

(Judith M. Heimann, Washington, D.C.)

Bibliography

Journal Articles

Brunig, Barbara 1955 Jacob Jonsz de Roy. Sarawak Museum Journal VI, 6, 1955:470-492.

Harrisson, Barbara 1955 Hose's Irrawaddy pioneers? Sarawak Museum Journal VI, 6:518-521.

1956a Song excavations and secondary burial. Sarawak Museum Journal VII, 7: 153-165.

1956b Kota Batu in Brunei. Sarawak Museum Journal VII, 8: 283-319.

1957 The Pre-historic cemetery of Tanjong Kubor. Sarawak Museum Journal VIII, 10:18-50.

1958a A new bibliography for Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal VIII, 11: 423-425.

1958b Niah's Lobang Tulang ("Cave of Bones") SMJ VIII, 12, 1958: 596-619.

1958c Summer comes to the Kuala Niah. SMJ VIII, 12: 690-693.

1959a Caves of Bones-New Finds, 1959. SMJ IX, 13-14: 164-178.

1959b Near to Ngadju (Rhinish missionaries in South Borneo, 1836-1913). SMJ IX, 13-14: 121-131.

1959c Niah, 1959. Sarawak Gazette No. 1217 (July 31, 1959): 151-153.

1960 A study of orang-utan behaviour in semi-wild state, 1956-1960. Sarawak Museum Journal IX, 15-16: 422-447.

1961a Lanthanotus borneensis--habits and observations. SMJ X, 17-18: 286-292.

1961b Orang-utan: what chances of survival? SMJ X, 17-18: 238-261.

1962a Stonewares: 'Marco Polo ware' in South-east Asia. SMJX, 19-20: 412-416.

1962b The immediate problem of the orang-utan. Sarawak Gazette No. 1247 (Jan. 31, 1962): 3.

1963a Education to wild living of young Orang-utans at Bako National Park, Sarawak. SMJXI, 21-22: 220-258.

1963b Tree shrew (Tupaia tana)--a twin birth and consequences. SMJ XI, 21-22: 262-265.

1964a The Cave of a thousand coffins--a unique burial ground, Sarawak Gazette No. 1279 (Sept. 30, 1964): 228-230.

1964b Recent archaeological discoveries in Malaysia 1962-1963, Borneo. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 37(2): 192-200.

1965a Conservation needs of the Orang-utan. IUCN Publications New Series 10: pp. 294-295.

1965b Upiusing--a late burial cave at Niah. Sarawak Museum Journal XII, 25-26:83-116.

1965c A Malay village kitchen. Sarawak Gazette No. 1284 (Feb. 28, 1965): 63.

1965d Mighty river: a shop-house stop-over. Sarawak Gazette No. 1288 (June 30, 1965): 183-184.

1965e Orang-utan orphans and Sergeant Limbu of Tebedu. Sarawak Gazette No. 1283 (Jan. 31, 1965):11-13.

1966a An aide-memoire in Niah Cave Guano. Sarawak Museum Journal XIII, 27: 321-322.

1966b Marker devices in East Sabah burial caves. SMJ XIII, 27: 323-334.

1967 A classification of Stone Age burials from Niah Great Cave, Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal XV, 30-31: 126-200.

1968a A Niah Stone Age jar-burial, C-14 dated. SMJ XVI, 32-33: 64-66.

1968b Iban and Ngaju: a significant bird folklore parallel. SMJXVI, 32-33: 186-194.

1969a The nesting behavior of semi-wild juvenile orang-utans. SM/XVII, 34-35: 336-384.

1969b Sungai Lumut: a 15th century burial ground. Brunei Museum Journal 1(1): 24-56 (with Dato PM Shariffuddin).

1970 Classification of archaeological trade ceramics from Kota Batu. Brunei Museum Journal 2(1): 114-187.

1971 The Prehistory of Sabah, reviewed by Benedict Sandin. Sarawak Museum Journal XIX, 38-39: 379.

1972 International Proposal to Regulate Trade in Non-human Primates. Primates 13(1): 111-114.

1973a European trade ceramics in the Brunei Museum. Brunei Museum Journal 3(1): 66-87.

1973b Research on orang-utan ecology by Birute Galdikas-Brindamour" Borneo Research Bulletin 5(1): 18-19.

1975a Brown spouted jars, a fact of ceramics history in Borneo view. Brunei Museum Journal 3(3): 186-200.

1975b Review of Prehistoric Wood from Brunei, Borneo by T. Harrisson Borneo Research Bulletin 7(2): 77-78.

1976 Review of European Sources for the History of the Sultanate of Brunei in the Sixteenth Century Robert Nicholl (editor). Borneo Research Bulletin 8(1): 40-42.

1977 Tom Harrisson and the Uplands: A summary of his unpublished ethnographic papers. Asian Perspectives 20(1): 1-7.

1982a Oriental Tradeware and the Dutch Connection. In: Kobe City Museum Special Publications. Kobe.

1982b Correlations and Types of Vietnamese Trade Wares. 13th to 19th Centuries. In: Vietnamese Ceramics. Singapore: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society and Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, pp. 38-48.

1984 Die Sammlung Captain Hatcher: Chinesisches Porzellan von etwa 1645. Keramos 106: 3-12.

1987 Ceramics traded to Indonesia during the early Qing. Trade Ceramics Studies, No. 7. Japan Society for the Study of Oriental Trade Ceramics, Fukuoka, pp. 105-115.

1994 Auf der Suche nach Pflaumenblueten im Schnee. Keramos 116: 3-4.

1997 Tom Harrisson's unpublished legacy on Niah. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 50(1): 41-51.

2003 The ceramic trade across the South China Sea, c. AD 1350-1650. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 76(1): 99-114.

2016 Kain Hitam: the Painted Cave In: G. Barker and L. Farr, eds. Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak. The archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Volume 2. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, McDonald Institute Monographs, pp. S11-S19.

Harrisson, Barbara and O.T. Bambin bin Ungap

1964 Tapadong-700 years of cave history in Sabah. Sarawak Museum Journal XI, 23-24: 655-665.

Harrisson, Barbara and Michael Chong 1965 Stories from Kinabatangan Caves, Sabah. Sarawak Museum Journal XII, 25-26: 117-127.

Harrisson, Barbara and Tom Harrisson 1966 Flying foxes (Pteropus) over Niah Cave area, 1965-1966. Sarawak Museum Journal XIV, 28-29: 234-236.

1968 Magala--a series of Neolithic and Metal Age burial grottos at Sekaloh, Niah, Sarawak. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 41(2): 148-175.

1969a Marine Conservation. Borneo Research Bulletin 1(2): 9.

1969b Primate Research and Conservation. Borneo Research Bulletin 1(2): 8-9.

Books

Harrisson, Barbara 1962 Orang-utan. London: Collins; Singapore: Oxford University Press ppk, 1987.

1964 Kinder Des Urwalds; meine arbeit mit orang-utans auf Borneo. Wiesbadan: F.A. Brockhans.

1978a Oriental Celadon. Leeuwarden: Princessehof Museum.

1978b Swatow in the Princessehof. Leeuwarden: Princessehof Museum.

1985 Keramiek uitAzie. Een gids voor de aziatische afdel ingen. Museum het Princessehof. Leeuwarden: Princessehof Museum.

1986a Pusaka Heirloom Jars of Borneo. Singapore: Oxford University Press.

1986b Asian Ceramics in the Princessehof. An introduction by Barbara Harrisson. Leeuwarden: Princessehof Museum.

1986c Chinese Porcelain. The Transitional period 1620-1683. The Michael Butler Collection. Leeuwarden: Princessehof Museum.

1995 Later Ceramics in South-East Asia, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

2008 Erringerungen an einem Schlesisschen Burgerfamilie [Memoirs of a Silesian burger (middle-class) family]. Privately printed, Jelsum, NL

Edited by Barbara Harrisson 1981 Kraakporcelain. An introduction with 12 Examples. Ottema-Kingma Foundation. Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof. Leeuwarden.

Harrisson, Tom and Barbara 1969-1970 The Prehistory of Sabah. Sabah Society Journal 4, Monograph. Unpublished

The Princessehof Collection of Asian ceramics. Chinese ware from the 15th century to the end of the 17th century, and some Japanese parallels. Undated.

(1) Judith M. Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life (U. of Hawaii Press), 1998.

(2) First published by Collins, 1962; republished in paperback by Oxford University Press in 1987.

(3) See the (probably incomplete) list of her published work at the end of this article.

(4) See Figure 1.