IDNO

N.11294.EVN

Description

On catalogue card for duplicate lanternslide LS.17171.EVN: "Siam. 136.31.
Singgora, S. Siam.
2 views of temple.
...
(3 slides [136.31-33])."

View of a temple in Singgora, whose windows and doors seem shut. [SG 29/10/2008]

Place

SE Asia; Thailand; Songkhla [Siam; Singgora; Singora]

Cultural Affliation

Buddhist; Thai

Named Person

Photographer

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Collector / Expedition

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Date

1924

Collection Name

Evans Collection

Source

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Format

Glass Negative Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The original box from which this negative came has been marked C8/ 2/by the cataloguer.

Bibliographical reference: The temple is mentioned by Evans as a “fine Buddhist temple at the outskirts” of Singgora (The Years Behind Me, pg. 487). [SG 29/10/2008]

Place: Evans recorded Singgora as being on the mouth of the Inland Sea and mentioned: “I had visited Singgora before, and I also visited it afterwards. It was a picturesque place with a wall and gateway opening on to the mouth of the Inland Sea. It had been the stronghold of a powerful Chinese chief, more or less a pirate at one time, and there was rather a fine Buddhist temple in the outskirts. The shops were mostly kept by the Chinese. Access to Singgora was by a side line from the Singapore-Bangkok main line, by steamer on the East Coast of the Peninsula, and, later, by road from Penang” (The Years Behind Me, pg. 487).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Sudeshna Guha 29/10/2008]