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  012 Adult with Children Outside

  Image of adult woman outdoors with four children.
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  012 Senoi with boat

  Senoi with boat
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  012 Waiting for rations

  The hospital provided daily basic rations for the patients and their families. As parents, spouses and children often accompanied the patient to hospital, there were always plenty of folk about to cook the meals for the patients.
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  012 Wem bin Mat, Angan binte Botek and Dr. Ed Ragan (Care Medico)

  Wem bin Mat and Dr. Ed Ragan reviewing passport and other documents, receiving last minute advice regarding the flight and what lay ahead in the United States. This was to be the first visit to United States by Orang Asli people. Also in photo are two Gombak Hospital staff members (right), Che Zainal in the white shirt.
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  012 Woman harvesting rice

  A woman harvests heads of rice with a Malay-style reaping knife, while one of her children plays on a log.
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  013 - Ed Henderson with children, at a dock with a boat

  Ed Henderson with children, at a dock with a boat
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  013 A Senoi hut in its jungle clearing

  A Senoi hut in its jungle clearing.
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  013 Cooking time

  There was a designated area for cooking where the patients' relatives could cook their meals for them. The Orang Asli were encouraged to go hunting and fishing in the jungle to supplement their diet.
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  013 Going downstream on raft

  When moving large amounts of supplies or trade goods, Batek use bamboo rafts whenever possible. This one has a platform to keep the cargo dry and a fire on board (foreground). They propel the rafts by means of wooden poles.
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  013 Wen bin Mat and Angan binte Botek at the airport

  Wem bin Mat and Angan binte Botek at the Subang Airport (now called Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport).
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  013 Woman with Child in Hospital Bed

  Image of a woman and child sitting in a hospital bed.
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  014 - Ed Henderson with several people standing in a river next to a boat

  Ed Henderson with several people standing in a river next to a boat "B"
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  014 Man shooting blowpipe

  Blowpipes are effective at killing small arboreal game. Here a man shoots at a monkey in a tree overhead. Because the darts are silent, they do not scare off the game if they miss. Hunters try to hit an animal more than once to increase the amount of poison in the victims blood and thus to increase the probability of killing it. The hunters bamboo dart quiver and his bushknife are fastened to his waist with rattan straps.
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  014 Senoi man seated on a log

  Senoi man seated on a log
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  014 Three Men Paddling Dugout Canoe (Perahuk, Praho')

  Three people paddling a dugout canoe on a river.
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  014 Using a kwali

  There was a designated area for cooking where the patients' relatives could cook their meals for them. The Orang Asli were encouraged to go hunting and fishing in the jungle to supplement their diet.
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  014 Wem bin Mat and Angan binte Botek board the plane

  Wem bin Mat carries Angan binte Botek aboard a Malaysian Airways Comet at the beginning of their journey to the United States.
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  015 - Indigenous man steering boat on the river

  Indigenous man steering boat on the river "B"
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  015 Angan binte Botek with the Duncan Family and Joan Flood Swetz

  Angan binte Botek, Wem bin Mat, Peter and Jeanie Duncan, their two children, and Joan Flood Swetz (right) at the Philadelphia Zoo. Angan traveled 12,000 miles from Malaysia to see a Malay tiger!
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  015 Man looking through window

  Man looking through window
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  015 Man Outside Holding Baby

  Image of a man outside near a fence holding a baby, 1967.
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  015 Man piercing girls ears

  Women, but not men, have their ears pierced so they can wear decorative flowers, leaves, and so forth in them. The girls themselves decide when to have the piercing done. Here a man pierces a girls ear using a porcupine quill. He previously cooled her ears with water over which he had said a spell (in the bowl on the left).
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  015 Pounding spices

  Orang Asli woman pounding spices to make curry paste. A popular curry dish was made with tiny fish called ikan bilis.
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  016 - Kathryn Henderson with the river in the background

  Kathryn Henderson with the river in the background
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  016 Angan binte Botek with Peter Duncan's children

  Angan binte Botek with Peter Duncan's children. Duncan was the producer of the CBS documentary, Our Man in Borneo, who facilitated Angan's journey to the United States in hopes of correcting her congenital heart defect at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Unfortunately her condition was inoperable.