Benedict Sandin

Benedict Sandin (18 October 1918 – 7 August 1982) was a Malaysian ethnologist and historian, who was Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak from December 1966 to March 1974. He also served as Government Ethnologist to the Government of Sarawak. He wrote many ethnographic articles in the Sarawak Museum Journal and a book entitled "The Sea Dayaks of Borneo: Before White Rajah Rule".

Sandin was an Iban, and was born in Kerangan Pinggai, a longhouse on the Paku river in the Saribas basin of the Betong division of Sarawak. Provided by Wikipedia