Peacock feather; barbs removed on all but the tip which is stuck into the lower, wider part of the quill. The rest of the quill has been cut and twisted back around the main section [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Peacock feather; barbs removed on all but the tip which is stuck into the lower, wider part of the quill. The rest of the quill has been cut and twisted back around the main section [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; Trang Ban Phra Muang
Cultural groups: Thai
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 Peacock Feather Bird, Process Coiled
Dimensions: Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 245 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.386
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers Museum display label - SIAM, BAN PHRA MUANG, TRANG Peacock feather (Pavo cristatus), worn in topknot by boys. Annandale Coll. Purch. 1902. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/9/2005]
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]

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