Rest for oars made from wood incorporating hornbill figure. The head and long neck of a bird sits on a flat wooden base which has been nailed in place. [FC 03/06/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Rest for oars made from wood incorporating hornbill figure. The head and long neck of a bird sits on a flat wooden base which has been nailed in place. [FC 03/06/2010]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; 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 Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Nailed, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions: Height: max 487 mm, Depth: max 60 mm, Length: max 670 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.466
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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