- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Compass [.1] and lid [.2]. [DCF Court Team 31/3/2003]
- Geographical reference
- Bangkok [Krung Thep]
- Cultural groups
- Chinese
- Person
- Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale
- Field collector Walter William Skeat (1866-1953) expedition
- PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1899
- Date collected
- 1899
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1899
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Glass, Material Metal
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 77 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1899.44.9.1 Accession number: 1899.44.9.2
- Research and responses
Collected during the Skeat expedition, 1899. Members of this expedition (the main part of which was to the Malay peninsula), led by Walter William Skeat, included Thomas Nelson Annandale as junior zoologist (it was during this first expedition to the Malay peninsula that Annandale became interested in ethnology), R. Evans as senior zoologist, D. C. Gwynne Vaughn as botanist, and Skeat as ethnologist. Accounts of this expedition were published by Annandale in 'The Siamese Malay States', in Scottish Geographical Magazine, September 1900. See also Skeat, 'Reminiscences of the Cambridge University Expedition to the North-Eastern Malay States, 1899-1900', Journal of the Malay Branch of the Royal Anthropological Society XXVI, 4, 1953, pp. 9-147; Malay Magic, 1900; and Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, 1906. [SHD 18/5/2001]
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