Naʔ Batɛw's neatly cut and measured pandanus strips
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
C01
Rights owner
Yaʔ Dunəy
Description alt
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Cultural group
Batek
Participants
Yaʔ Dunəy, Naʔ Batɛw
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.