IDNO

LS.17347.EVN

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Malaya. 142.13.
Young Malay man of Perak and Patani blood. (front & side)
(2 slides [142.13-14])."

Three-quarter length portrait of Pandak, a young Malay man wearing a robe tied at the waist and standing in front of trees in a garden. [EB 23/02/2023]

Place

SE Asia; Malaysia; Perak

Cultural Affliation

Patani Malay

Named Person

Pandak

Photographer

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Collector / Expedition

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Date

1913 - 1935

Collection Name

Evans CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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).

Bibliographical Reference: Evans mentions Pandak as a "Lanoh Negrito" in his book The Negritos of Malaya Peninsula, and Pandak’s father is also mentioned as a Negrito. Therefore the caption for him in this negative and in the matching lantern slide is odd. Evans gives details on Pandak in his article "Some beliefs of the Negritos of Lenggong, Perak". [SG 17/4/2008]

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]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Sudeshna Guha 17/4/2008]