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Holding pandanus leaves

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posted on 2024-04-16, 11:07 authored by Alice RudgeAlice Rudge
Jamilah holds her cut strips of pandanus

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

C01

Rights owner

Yaʔ Dunəy

Description alt

Jamilah cɛp yoh hakeʔ ʔoʔ

Cultural group

Batek

Participants

Yaʔ Dunəy, Jamilah

Country

Malaysia

Place

Tembeling, Jerantut District

Techniques of production

Cut-cut

Materials

Leaf-pandanus leaf

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Location

Forest

Temporality

Pandanus must be collected before the mid-afternoon or you risk breaking taboos that incur madness. It can also only be collected at certain times of year related to when certain cicadas are calling, and it cannot be collected if certain spells have been done in the village.

Intent

To collect pandanus for weaving

Date of creation

2022-08-01

Unique ID

2019SG06-C01-0002

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    Keywords

    collectingcuttingpandanus

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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