- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Toy boat made from coconut husk [.1], with ? mast [.2] of ? bamboo [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/3/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cape Pattani [Kuala Patani] Kampong Jujul
- 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
- Donated: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Coconut Husk Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 215 mm, Length: max 172 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.41.5.1 Accession number: 1902.41.5.2 Other numbers: 204
- 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] This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: 'This coconut-husk ship from Thailand both entertains and teaches. It was made to be launched by children in imitation of the ‘spirit ships’ used by adults in a ritual to cast off sickness. However, children also played with them as fighting ships. The collector who donated this ship to the Museum found it floating in a river.
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