Shadow puppet figure cut out of a leaf. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Shadow puppet figure cut out of a leaf. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/3/2005]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; Trang Ban Phra Muang
Cultural groups: Samsam; Thai
Person: Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale; Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson expedition; PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale; PRM source Herbert Christopher Robinson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1902
Date collected: By 1902
Acquisition information: Donated: 1902
Materials and processes: Material Plant Leaf
Dimensions: Length x Width 200 x 47 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.53.18
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]