IDNO

P.46068.SKT

Description

A life-size pottery figure of a smiling Buddhist monk seated in a wat (Thai Buddhist temple), acting as a collection box. Its head is bowed and has a small hole in at the top for the insertion of donations. [LC 15/2/2007]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Thai

Named Person

Photographer

Annandale, Nelson

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

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 15/2/2007]