Short knife [.1] with wooden handle with expanding towards the butt, incised with geometric patterns and mounted with copper alloy. With wooden sheath [.2] with crosspiece. [El.B 30/5/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Short knife [.1] with wooden handle with expanding towards the butt, incised with geometric patterns and mounted with copper alloy. With wooden sheath [.2] with crosspiece. [El.B 30/5/2007]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; Naung Chik Ban Sai Kau
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: Purchased: 1902
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions: Length: max 188 mm, Length: max 168 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.26.1 Accession number: 1902.88.26.2
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]

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