Basketry rice steamer. Conical in shape, it is woven from thick strips of plant fibre and has a round opening at the larger end of the cone. [RM [OPS move] 11/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Basketry rice steamer. Conical in shape, it is woven from thick strips of plant fibre and has a round opening at the larger end of the cone. [RM [OPS move] 11/11/2016]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; Malaysia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia; Pattani [Patani]
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 Plant Fibre, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter: max 250 mm, Height: max 188 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.348 Other numbers: 348
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]