034 Woman plaiting necklace

Title: 034 Woman plaiting necklace
Description: Women are skilled at plaiting strands of natural materials into necklaces and armbands. Here a woman plaits a necklace from black rhizomes of a fungus that grows on rocks. Such rhizomes are thought to ward off disease. Batek wear the necklaces themselves or trade them to Malays.
Coverage: Malaysia
Creator: Endicott, Kirk M.
Date: 1975
Format: JPG
Identifier: https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12952
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type: Stillimage
Provenance: Keene State College