060 Woman making digging stick blade

Title: 060 Woman making digging stick blade
Description: Batek are clever at reusing such scarce and valuable materials as iron. Here a woman is making a chisel-shaped digging stick blade from a broken piece of a bushknife blade. She has inserted the blade in a wooden handle, heated it in a fire, and is now pounding the end to thin it, using a ball-peen hammer and an ax butt for an anvil. She will later sharpen the newly-formed cutting edge with a file.
Coverage: Malaysia
Creator: Endicott, Kirk M.
Date: 1976
Format: JPG
Identifier: https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12968
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type: Stillimage
Provenance: Keene State College