Water clock. Bowl shaped piece of coconut shell with hole in the centre inside a plain glass jar (not-coloured) with glass stopper. [MJD 05/10/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Water clock. Bowl shaped piece of coconut shell with hole in the centre inside a plain glass jar (not-coloured) with glass stopper. [MJD 05/10/2009]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand
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 Coconut Husk Plant, Material Glass, Process Perforated, Process Recycled
Dimensions: Diameter: max 120 mm jar, Diameter 61 mm, Height: max 175 mm jar
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.288
Research and responses: 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]