The woman has stopped to rest and is searching for some tobacco in her pandanus pouch. (Her pandanus back-basket lies on the ground at the lower left.) Her daughter is pressing her bat against the digging stick, while her son plays with the plastic bag that held the dried leaves used to roll cigarettes.
Hunters often spend leisure time making new blowpipe darts. Here two girls (on left) and one boy are making darts. Another boy holds a blowpipe with clay packed around the end. Youngsters like to make balls of clay and shoot them through blowpipes at small animals. Their bamboo tube of dart poison leans against a stick in the center.
Satah was one of the many deep jungle medical posts set up to deal with problems "on the spot" and to provide care and treatment for the local area. It was manned by trained Orang Asli Field Staff and was connected to Gombak Hospital by radio link. If a patient needed hospital attention he/she could be airlifted by helicopter to Gombak. This service was provided by UK, US, and Australian Air Forces.
Once tubers have been dug up, they can rot or ferment and become bitter. This man is threading some takop tubers on a strand of rattan, so he can suspend them over the fire and dry them to inhibit spoilage
Orang Asli stilted "rumah" not far from the Satah Medical Post. Wood is used to build the framework and then bamboo strips are used to make the walls. The roof is thatched with palm leaves such as bertam, and everything is secured with ropes made from rotan.
