- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife [.1] with wooden handle with decoration in decreasing concentric circles. With wooden sheath [.2] bound with string and rattan. [El.B 30/5/2007]
- 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 Rattan Plant, Material String, Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 285 mm, Length: max 210 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.88.31.1 Accession number: 1902.88.31.2
- 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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