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1902.88.499.1

Quiver of bamboo with basketry lid. [El.B 25/01/2008]

1902.88.499.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Quiver of bamboo with basketry lid. [El.B 25/01/2008]
Long description
The quiver is incised with an 'argus pheasant' pattern and bound with three rings of plaited cane. The lid is attached with a string, and there is a carrying string with a crescent-shaped wooden toggle. The quiver is filled with leaf strips amongst which the equipment is inserted. [El.B 25/01/2008]
Geographical reference
Malaysia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia
Upper Perak Temongoh
Cultural groups
Po-Klo
Ukit
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1902
Date collected
1901 - 1902
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1902
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Material Cane Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Basketry, Process Plaited
Dimensions
Length: max 375 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1902.88.499.1
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]

Note that 'Sakai Bukit' is often used as ethnonym for 'Po-Klo', but 'Sakai' is an offensive term meaning 'slave'. Note too that 'Seman' ('Semang') is also offensive, and that I can find no refernce to 'Gebelur'. Information from Ethnologue. [SHD 1/6/2001]

Associated publications
This item may be represented in and, when next retrieved, should compared to figures 3, 5, 6 and/or 15 in Annandale's & Robinson's Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, Anthropology, Part I, 1903. [SHD 18/5/2001]

Search terms: Weapon, Quiver, Blowpipe Dart

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