Adela S. Baer Image Collection
John H. Brandt Image Collection
Kirk and Karen Endicott Image Collection

Adela S. Baer Image Collection
The Adela S. Baer image collection consists of photographs taken during Baer’s visits to Malaysia between 1971-2002. Baer’s work with the Orang Asli has mainly been related to the fields of health and genetics but has also included advocacy work. The captions for her photo collection include the following abbreviations: bt.=binte=daughter of; b.=bin=son of; s/o is son of; h/o is husband of; laki=husband of.

John H. Brandt Image Collection
This photograph collection documents the work and travels of John H. Brandt among Orang Asli groups, primarily Negrito or Semang, in the southern extension (the peninsular region) of Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia in the early 1960s. This group consists of 125 black and white prints that record Brandt’s travels among the Negrito, Temuan and Jahai groups. The prints are not dated but were most likely taken between 1961 and 1965.

Kirk and Karen Endicott Image Collection
Photos taken by Kirk and Karen Endicott during fieldwork and visits between 1971 and 2004. The Batek De' are an indigenous tribal people (called "Orang Asli" in Malaysia), numbering about 800, who live in the interior of southern Kelantan and northern Pahang states in Peninsular Malaysia. Until the late 1970s most of their home area was covered with lowland tropical rainforest, and their economy was based on hunting and gathering wild animals and plants and extracting forest products to trade. Since then, government agencies and private companies have logged most of the forest in Kelantan north of the border of the National Park (Taman Negara) and replaced it with rubber and oil palm plantations. Most Batek now live inside the National Park, which has been preserved as rainforest; in areas adjacent to the park; and at the government-sponsored settlement at Post Lebir on the middle Lebir River.