Corporal Laxon
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House of Commons, 1908.
Stone's Parliamentary diary (4 June 1908) notes '...lunch at the House of Commons with Captain Wandsop who came with his servant Dyak from Borneo in native costume.' Whilst there is a sense of negotiation and arrangement to many of Stone's portraits, Corporal Laxon, a former 'Dyak Head Hunter' and member of the Borneo native police, was reduced to the kind of typological representation adopted in anthropological studies, being pictured front and side profile in both native and western dress.
Location: The Benjamin Stone Photographic Collection, n21871-001
