In the middle 1970s, Batek De lived in temporary camps along many of the low-elevation rivers and streams in the area shaded by diagonal lines. Now the area north of the border of the National Park (Taman Negara) has been logged and turned into rubber and oil palm plantations, so most Batek have moved into the still-forested National Park and immediately adjacent areas, with a few living at the government-sponsored settlement at Post Lebir on the middle Lebir River in Kelantan.
Peter Duncan, producer of CBS documentary, Our Man in Borneo, shown on Philadelphia TV in December, 1965 and now part of the United States National Archives. Mr. Duncan is holding Angan binte Botek at Gombak Hospital.
Angan binte Botek preparing for her trip to the United States in September, 1966. She is shopping in Kuala Lumpur with Wem bin Mat, Marilyn Joseph, and Marilyn Haasnoot Sjafiroeddin (left to right).
Most lean-to shelters consist of a single sloping panel of thatch, which is supported by a horizontal pole on the open front side and falls to the ground in the back. During especially wet weather, triangular side-panels may be added, and low platforms of logs and split bamboo or bark are made to raise the sleeping mats above the ground. This lean-to shelter has two sleeping platforms, one in back and the other in front under a small roof extension.
Patient being examined by a Canadian CARE volunteer doctor. The hospital depended on trained volunteer medical staff from UK. US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
This man is pounding the husks off a species of nut (Pangium edule). Each grapefruit-sized husk contains several nuts in separate shells. Because the nuts are poisonous in their natural state, people boil them in their shells, then split them open, slice up the nut meats, and leach the slivers of nut meat in a stream before eating them. The nut meat is oily and highly nutritious.
