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1899.44.20.1

Charm consisting of a wooden canopy frame [.1] and 3 small plaster figures [.2 - .4] (mythological) for hanging in trees to ward off evil spirits.

1899.44.20.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Charm consisting of a wooden canopy frame [.1] and 3 small plaster figures [.2 - .4] (mythological) for hanging in trees to ward off evil spirits.
Geographical reference
Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand
Bangkok [Krung Thep]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1899
Date collected
1899
Acquisition information
Donated: 1899
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carpentered, Process Moulded, Process Painted
Dimensions
Height: max 140 mm, Length: max 77 mm, Length: max 67 mm, Length: max 62 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1899.44.20.1 Accession number: 1899.44.20.2 Accession number: 1899.44.20.3 Accession number: 1899.44.20.4
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]

This object was physically numbered by [DCF Court Team 10/6/2003]

Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet

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