Feb. 24, 1962 - An orang in the family: Mrs. Harrison finds it hard to do anything without Eva, the ape. Even when typing her husband's letters, Eva clings to her. Only when the curator comes into their museum like house, does she transfer her affections. Sarawak Museum curator is war hero: With German wife he lives in a home that could well be a museum.: Tom Harrison, son of the late General G. Harrison DSO, was the first white man to be dropped into Boneo on special Operation during the war. He organised Dyak tribemen as guerillas and helped the Australian landings for which he won the DSO./
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Feb. 24, 1962 - An orang in the family: Mrs. Harrison finds it hard to do anything without Eva, the ape. Even when typing her husband's letters, Eva clings to her. Only when the curator comes into their museum like house, does she transfer her affections. Sarawak Museum curator is war hero: With German wife he lives in a home that could well be a museum.: Tom Harrison, son of the late General G. Harrison DSO, was the first white man to be dropped into Boneo on special Operation during the war. He organised Dyak tribemen as guerillas and helped the Australian landings for which he won the DSO./he was today, married to the daughter of Dr. Gerhadt Guttler, formerly secretary to admiral Canaris, Hitler's naval and ssecret service adviser, he is Govenment Ethnologist and Curator of the Sarawak museum at Kuching. He has built upone of the finest museum in the Far East. Recent discoveries in the Niah cave in Borneo have earned his work a Gulbenkian Grant of ?5, 000 in adition to ?1, 000 from the Government. The Harrison home is a fantastic place - almost a museum on its own. The walls and ceilings are lined and covered with his treasures collected in a life of travel in the East, when he led an Oxford University Expedition in Central Borneo; as well as in Lapland, New Hebrides, West Pacific and among the cannibals of Malekula, for which he received the Cuthbert Peak award of the Roy. Geog. Society. His collection includes native scroll designs, mats, hats, Dyak parangs, musical instruments fans, stuffed birds, charms, a 'fridge and Harrisons are to orangoutangs and some owls. This is one of a series of pictures showing the Harrisons in their unusual home, and with their pets. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)