Toy parang: knife with handle painted black and curved 'blade', all carved from wood. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Toy parang: knife with handle painted black and curved 'blade', all carved from wood. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2005]
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 Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 440 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.172
Associated publications: 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]