IDNO

P.46015.SKT

Description

The back view of twelve women wearing ceremonial clothing leading an open-air pre-circumcision procession of youths (not seen in frame) at the mouth of the Pattani River.
The front five women carry ritual? items wrapped in cloth; the next five women carry "long spirally decorated tapers", or "make-believe" krisses (Skeat 1901, p.180). The two women at the rear, wearing kebaya (long garments), carry additional ritual? items. [LC 8/2/2007]

Place

SE Asia; Thailand; East Coast; Pattani; Pattani River [Siam; Patani]

Cultural Affliation

Malay

Named Person

Photographer

Gwynne-Vaughan, David Thomas

Collector / Expedition

Skeat, Walter William [from Cambridge Expedition to the North-eastern Malay States and Upper Perak, 1899 - 1900]

Date

1899

Collection Name

Skeat Collection

Source

Skeat, Walter William

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: This is probably the circumcision ceremony recounted in Skeat, W.W., 1901. Notes on the Ethnography of the Malay Peninsula. Man No. 142, pp. 179-180, and Skeat, W.W. 1953. Reminiscences of the Cambridge University Expedition to the North-Eastern Malay States, 1899-1900. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 26, Part 4, pp.79-82.

This print was kept in a box now numbered C153/ by the cataloguer. This box was formerly numbered 160.

P.46000.SKT-P.46074.SKT were found in the envelope now numbered C153/1/.
Taken during the Cambridge-sponsored expedition to the (north east) Malay Peninsula in 1899.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Liana Chua 8/2/2007]