1899.44.26.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Chopping knife [.1] with curved edge, with horn handle, shape resembling a bird's head. With wooden sheath [.2], carved with notches on one side and with projecting snail-shell carving, bound with two bands of plaited cane. [El.B 31/5/2007]

Geographical reference

Thailand

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand

Naung Chik Ban Sai Kau

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 Animal Horn, Material Steel Metal, Material Iron Metal, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal)

Dimensions

Length: max 440 mm, Length: max 407 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1899.44.26.1 Accession number: 1899.44.26.2

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]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Knife, Sheath