026 Man making rattan basket

Item

Title

026 Man making rattan basket

Description

While women specialize in making baskets and mats of pandanus leaves (Pandanus spp.), men usually make the rattan (Calamus spp.) baskets. This man is making an openwork rattan basket for leaching poison out of a species of poisonous yam (Dioscorea hispida).

Coverage

Malaysia

Creator

Endicott, Kirk M.

Date

1975

Format

JPG

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12949

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Type

Stillimage

Provenance

Keene State College

Item sets

Kirk Endicott Collection

Site pages

Kirk and Karen Endicott Collection

Media

26.jpg