Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to house leg: '22'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Collected and donated by American anthropologist Dr Robert Knox Dentan (b.1936)
Event Date 1936
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Register notes 'c& d R.K. Denton [sic]' but the 1976 Annual report notes 'Dr. and Mrs. Denton [sic]. Collection from the Mah Meri of Malaysia, including various household utensils, baskets, fishing nets etc' .
Event Date 1976
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
A covering card in the original card index reads: ' PART COLLECTION: " From the mah meri village on Pulan Carey off the Selangor coast. The mah meri are a Senoi people (ma = person, mri = inland) call themselves ma banwan (sea people). They exploit mangrove swamp and coastal sea." from Leta Richter 27 2 1976.

The catalogue number 1976.1582 covers all those articles having an existing list number. The CM numbers used by the Dentans are retained to ease x ref. with their notes' . There is a note on the card concerned with this item [CM.22], reading: " (See disquisition on house warming 565)". "A model house with ritual ornaments. A superb thing"
Event Date 1976
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A model house with ritual ornaments. None of the "many accoutrements" to be seen
Event Date 24/2/1987
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Mah Meri people are part of the Senoi group, one of the indigenous groups known as the Orang Asli (orang: people, asli: original).
Event Date 6/7/2022
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Model house on wooden stilts. Split level house with pitched roof and small extended porch; two ladders leading up to openable doors made from slats of wood tied together with nylon cord; walls, roof and two openable window made from leaves stitched together with pink plastic ribbon; openings decorated with knotted pink and natural plant fibre and with pieces of cotton cloth; ties of plastic ribbon, nylon cord cotton cord and plant fibre used throughout; two rectangular woven mats inside the house.
Event Date 8/3/2023
Author: Katrina Dring