IDNO

LS.17346.EVN

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Malaya. 142.7.
Patani - Malay woman, and Kedah woman, with Siamese blood."

On related negative N.12531.EVN: "Malays
Pandak's two wives, Perak." [manuscript in ink, Evan's handwriting]

Full-length portrait of two women, the two wives of Pandak, standing on grass in front of a small tree. The woman on the left wears a sarong with a floral pattern, a necklace and a white blouse with wide sleeves. Beside her, the other woman wears a plain sarong, loose white blouse with lace at the hem and cuffs and a sash over her right shoulder. She is carrying a cloth in her right hand. [EB 01/02/2023]

Place

SE Asia; Malaysia; Perak

Cultural Affliation

Patani Malay; Thai

Named Person

Pandak

Photographer

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Collector / Expedition

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Date

Collection Name

Evans CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Cultural Group: ‘Patani Malay’ in Evans’ reference are those who occupied the upper reaches of the Perak river, and "who have come from the Patani States on the east coast or Peninsular Siam" (The Years Behind Me, p. 257). [SG 10/9/2007]

Named Person: Pandak was the son of Dahabok, a negrito with whom Grübauer had dealings in connection with obtaining skeletal material (Pagan Races Vol 1, p. 581). Speaking of Pandak in his book The Negritos of Malaya Peninsula published in 1937, Evans wrote: "... I sent a word to Pandak and Suli (two of the Lanoh negritos of Lenggong in Upper Perak whom I have known for many years) that a European was coming to see them and that they should treat him as they did me. The answer came back, however, that they did not wish to see anybody but Tuan Evans - flattering to me, but not so pleasing for the European visitor" (page 38).