Context (Related Documents)
Note found with beads reads: 'Kuala Selinsing, Perak F.M.S. Excavated [illegible] thus to be all of one date. Apparently Hindu Chinese Pottery of Sung [Dynasty] to Ming [Dynasty] type [illegible] coming in at end of [illegible].' Note is written on letterhead that reads: 'Cambridge 1753. The Old Granary, Cambridge.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
See also 1947.2269 A-G; 1947.2270; and 1947.2271 A-D
Event Date 18/1/2011
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
A: Collection of ten short strings of beads of various sizes, shapes and materials - mostly glass - and various colours, including orange, blue, green, black, white, etc; B: small crystal box containing complete and fragments of beads of a variety of materials.
Event Date 18/1/2011
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
It is possible that these are the beads referred to by I.H.N. Evans in 'On Ancient Remains from Kuala Selinsing, Perak' (Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, vol. 12, p. 123). The section in question reads: 'In May, 1924, Mr. B.W.F. Barnard, then Deputy Conservator of Forrests, Perak North, sent me a number of skulls and ten cornelian beads, together with a few other beads in green, red and blue glass or paste and a rough piece of blue glass. He informed me that all these objects had been discovered on the sea-shore near Kuala Selinging, North Perak and that the local tradition said that there had been a pirate village there.'
Event Date 6/10/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn