034 Woman plaiting necklace

Item

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

Item sets

Kirk Endicott Collection

Site pages

Kirk & Karen Endicott Collection

Media

34.jpg