Description (Labels & Markings)
Old printed paper label '9AN' pasted to object. These were the numbers supplied to Skeat by von Hügel as noted in the Skeat correspondence.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Fourteenth Annual Report Of The Antiquarian Committee (1899), Appendix II, SKeat Collection, '12 The Theatre, No. 683. The shadow-play, Wajang, comprising one hundred and fifty-five specimens, viz.: (a) 1—149. A complete set of figures, numbering one hundred and forty-nine, cut out of hide. [...]
(The above objects formed the entire outfit of Che Abas, a Kelantan [sic] Malay, who for many years was an exhibitor of the Wayang [sic], in which the above set of figures was used for a period of twelve years.)'
Event Date 6/6/1899
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Card reads, 'Daki ishi (istri) Ma Wana', also in pencil annotated, 'Princess mana - possibly wife of Wana (Rawanna or Tosakan).'

Small black and white photo attached to card, showing two shadow puppets: Left one marked as '9AN' and the right '9U'. Date and photographer unknown.
Event Date 19/12/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Handwritten catalogue card reads, 'Shadow puppet. Figure of Princess Mana.'
Event Date 19/12/1986
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Translation of the label on the wayang Siam puppet by Matthew Cohen provided on 29/08/2015 reads, 'Putri Mana Daki [?] istri Ma[haraja].Wana', which translates 'Princess Mana, the wife [?] of the Great King of the Forest'.
Maharaja Wana, the Great King of the Forest, is the standard name for Ravana. The Ramayana epic is known as the Hikayat Maharaja Wana, 'Story of the Great King of the Forest'.
Event Date 29/8/2015
Author: Remke Velden

Research Visit (Anthropology)
RES.2025.3221 | Visit by Dr Patricia Hardwick and Jocelyn Ng. Access and photography of historic collection of shadow puppets to support and inform exhibition in Malaysia.
Event Date 26/9/2025
Author: Anne Doering