In the jungles, the indigenous people made do with what they could source from Nature, whether by hunting, fishing or gathering / growing (vegetables). In their remote habitat, piped water was unheard of, while the sparkling stream water in the hills provided instant drinking water contained in cut bamboo shoot. Implements were made from objects around them, some improvised. Here, while one is quenching the thirst, the other looks like prodding a tortoise with a pole, to prevent it from moving and so that it could provide a meal, while its shells could be turned into bowl utensils, musical instruments and ornaments like bracelets or rings. Dato’ Chuah Thean Teng, world acknowledged as the originator of Batik Painting, never stopped innovating since he developed the art in 1953. In Chinese Art In The 20th Century (1959), Professor Michael Sullivan wrote: “In Teng, Malaya claims to have found her first national painter. Teng has conceived the idea of making pictures in batik – not just decorative designs, but large and frequently complex figure compositions.” He was the first Malaysian (after British-born Peter Harris) to be given a Retrospective in 1965 by the National Art Gallery (The NAG again accorded him a Tribute exhibition in 2008), while Penang accorded him a Retrospective in 1994. In 1998, he was conferred a Dato’ship and in 2005, Penang’s ‘Live Heritage Award’. Images of his works, Two Of A Kind (1968) and Tell You A Secret (1987) were chosen for UNICEF’s greeting cards. He was the only Malaysian in a roll of great world artists invited to take part in the Commonwealth Artists of Fame exhibition in London, to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1977.