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045 Group of People Outside of Hospital

Image of a group of people sitting outside of the hospital.

045 Iban group in elaborate dress

Iban group in elaborate dress

045 Meat drying over fire

Occasionally people bring in more meat than camp members can eat in a single day. Here some porcupine meat is being dried to preserve it for few days. Pieces of pith for blowpipe darts dry on top of the meat.

045 Weaving small mats

When some old hospital screens were found discarded some Orang Asli women suggested we turn them into upright weaving looms. I found some weaving cotton and heddles and the women set up the looms. They then asked their menfolk to bring in rotan from the jungle which they cut up into strips for weaving. Small mats were made to take back to the kampongs, and also sets of tablemats were woven to sell to visitors to the hospital and various groups of ex-pats in Kuala lumpur etc.

046 - Sick ward, Buloh

A large white building with a shingled roof surrounded by grass.

046 Children in Hut

Image of three children looking out from the threshold of a hut with an adult woman sitting on the floor next to them.

046 Dr. Dave Kinzie

Dr. Kinzie removed a foreign body from patient's leg.

046 Iban men demonstrating game

Iban men demonstrating game

046 Weaving small mats

When some old hospital screens were found discarded some Orang Asli women suggested we turn them into upright weaving looms. I found some weaving cotton and heddles and the women set up the looms. They then asked their menfolk to bring in rotan from the jungle which they cut up into strips for weaving. Small mats were made to take back to the kampongs, and also sets of tablemats were woven to sell to visitors to the hospital and various groups of ex-pats in Kuala lumpur etc.

046 Woman medicating boy

Batek use numerous plant-based medications. Here a woman spreads water containing medicinal leaves on the back of a boy with a fever.

047 - Sick ward, Buloh (2)

Image: Photograph of sick Ward, Buloh

047 - Yosa's house

Yosa's House, Kampong Bapak, Pahang

047 Crowd Watching Helicopter

Image of crowd watching a helicopter.

047 Dr. Dave Kinzie and Nurse Joan Flood Swetz

Dr. Dave Kinzie and Nurse Joan Flood Swetz administer care to a patient.

047 Iban man posing with rifle

Iban man posing with rifle

047 Mother delousing daughter

A mother, with her baby on her lap, searches through her daughters hair and pinches the lice on a bamboo spatula.

047 Temiar mother and baby

This Temiar mother has recently given birth and is awaiting the arrival of the next helicopter to take her and child back to their kampong.

048 - Buddhist temple, Buloh

Buddhist temple, Buloh

048 Iban group posing 1

Iban group posing

048 Meal time

Procuring ingredients for personal cooking. Patients had the option of eating meals prepared by hospital staff or receiving ingredients to prepare their own food. Since many patients were accompanied by their families, it was usually preferable to have a family member prepare meals, which were often supplemented by fish or meat caught outside the hospital grounds. Fresh fish, monkey and iguana were favorites.

048 Rattan on rafts

In the 1970s, Malay rattan traders came up the Lebir River and its tributaries in outboard motorboats. They brought foodssuch as rice, flour, and sugarand other goodsincluding metal tools and clothto trade for rattan. They made agreements with individual Batek to collect certain amounts of rattan by a date when they would return. Here some Malay traders are assembling a consignment of rattan on bamboo rafts, which they paid some Batek to build. The traders will then pole the raft-loads of rattan downstream to their villages.

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