1902.88.86

Collection type

Object

Description

Musical instrument, time beater in the form of a squirrel with legs hinged to a stick. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/2/2005]

Geographical reference

Thailand

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand

Ulu Rhaman Kampong Jarum

Cultural groups

Malay

Semai

Kensiu

Person

Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale

Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson

Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson expedition

PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1902

Date collected

1901 - 1902

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1902

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carpentered, Process Jointed

Dimensions

Length: max 558 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1902.88.86 Other numbers: 86

Research and responses

'Semang' is an offensive term meaning 'debt-slave' in Khmer and referring generally to the Semai and Kensiu, both of whom are also often called 'Sakai', which is also an offensive term, meaning 'slave'. Information from Ethnologue. [SHD 1/6/2001]

Associated publications

Thomas Nelson Annandale and Herbert Christopher Robinson undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [SHD 17/5/2001]

Search terms: Music, Toy and Game, Figure, Musical Instrument, Animal Figure