- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Three of 6 porcupine quills: .4 - .6 are mounted on a museum display card with text written on the front. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/2/2006]
- Geographical reference
- 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 1901
- Date collected
- 1901 - 1902
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Porcupine Quill Animal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 115 mm, Length: max 116 mm, Length: max 113 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.88.383.4 Accession number: 1902.88.383.5 Accession number: 1902.88.383.6
- 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]
These [.1 - .3] are mounted on a piece of card so I have left them as one computer record, [JP 6/6/2001]
During the DCF 'What's Upstairs' project, 3 more quills [.4 - .6] were found on another museum display card with details written on the front. Both cards quote the same Annandale collection number (No. 383) and since no mention is made in the accession records of how many porcupine quills were given by Annandale to the museum, it is assumed that all 6 belong to the same accession number. Note also that more porcupine quills may be discovered which also come under this accession number. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/2/2006]
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