Ba-Sa-Dung Li, Hainan photogallery

I searched the web to find out some more about Leonard Clark and found the quote below on the publishers www.travelerstales.com website as an introduction to a book by Clark - 'Rivers Ran East' - on an exploration of the Amazon.

"Leonard Clark was perhaps one of the greatest of all twentieth-century explorers. He did not believe in big expeditions and elaborate paraphernalia - he was a man who carried his own belongings and charged ahead. This same trait enabled him to perform extraordinary feats of military intelligence and reconnaissance in difficult and dangerous areas during World War II. Clark attended the University of California, then joined the army, attaining the rank of colonel. During the war, he spent many months in China behind Japanese lines organizing guerrilla activity. His post-war expeditions began in Borneo, and over the years he made trips to Mexico, the Celebes, Sumatra, China, India, Japan, Central America, South America, and Burma. He was the author of two other books, A Wanderer Till I Die and The Marching Wind. He passed away in 1957 at the age of 49, while on a diamond-mining expedition in Venezuela."


The photos above are all of Ba-sa-dung Lois (Li). The Article includes 29 photos in all including ones of other Lois including some identified by Clark as Ha (whose women wear very large coils of brass rings in their ears - and held up on thier heads to ease the weight except for ceremonies -and the women's clothes seem to be mainly plain indigo) and Mei-fu-Li).
I am very grateful to Mark A Johnson of Asian and Tribal Arts for alerting me via the tribaltextiles.info forum to this National Geographic article.
I searched the web to find out some more about Leonard Clark and found the quote below on the publishers www.travelerstales.com website as an introduction to a book by Clark - 'Rivers Ran East' - on an exploration of the Amazon. "Leonard Clark was perhaps one of the greatest of all twentieth-century explorers. He did not believe in big expeditions and elaborate paraphernalia - he was a man who carried his own belongings and charged ahead. This same trait enabled him to perform extraordinary feats of military intelligence and reconnaissance in difficult and dangerous areas during World War II. Clark attended the University of California, then joined the army, attaining the rank of colonel. During the war, he spent many months in China behind Japanese lines organizing guerrilla activity. His post-war expeditions began in Borneo, and over the years he made trips to Mexico, the Celebes, Sumatra, China, India, Japan, Central America, South America, and Burma. He was the author of two other books, A Wanderer Till I Die and The Marching Wind. He passed away in 1957 at the age of 49, while on a diamond-mining expedition in Venezuela."
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Ba-sa-dung Li, Hainan

(a small group of photos from an article in the September 1938 edition of The National Georgraphic Magazine "Among the Big Knot Lois of Hainan" by Leonard Clark.)