Batek living at Kampung Macang in 1990 still used blowpipes for hunting. Here some men are making new blowpipes from blowpipe bamboo that they collected on their motorbikes.
All Batek learn to cook in early childhood, and both husbands and wives cook for their families, although women do so more often. Here several bachelors who share a shelter prepare to boil a bunch of wild mushrooms.
After all vegetation was removed from the land, plantation contractors bulldozed horizontal terraces around the hills to provide level bases for rows of oil palm trees. Some terraces can be seen in the background.
Here a new oil palm plantation (foreground) lies beside some uncut forest (background). The bare earth and smoke on the forest edge suggest that loggers are now removing the remaining forest.
Mature oil palms have now replaced the forest in the Relai River Valley. Here two young men in western dress look over an oil palm plantation where their parents once lived by hunting and gathering in deep rainforest.
