036 Woman delousing her mother

Item

Title

036 Woman delousing her mother

Description

Hair lice are a constant nuisance for Batek. Men sometimes shave their heads to get relief, but women usually depend on friends and relatives to pluck out the lice and crush them. Here a woman is delousing her mother using a thin bamboo spatula made especially for this purpose, a common scene during leisure hours in Batek camps.

Coverage

Malaysia

Creator

Endicott, Kirk M.

Date

1975

Format

JPG

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12955

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

36.jpg