055 Group decorated with flowers

Item

Title
055 Group decorated with flowers
Description
When flowers are abundant in the forest, Batek often make them into elaborate body decorations. Here a man and six women and girls wear headdresses of flowers on bark and rattan frames and plant stems through their nasal septa. The women also wear lines of white lime paste across their foreheads and flowers in their pierced ears.
Coverage
Malaysia
Creator
Endicott, Kirk M.
Date
1976
Format
JPG
Identifier
https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12970
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type
Stillimage
Provenance
Keene State College
Media
55.jpg