IDNO

P.46078.SKT

Description

A portrait of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Pattani, dressed in a light-coloured tunic, trousers, patterned sarong and songkok (traditional Malay hat).
Behind him is a ?golden umbrella, possibly a sign of his status. Next to him is a potted plant on a richly decorated stand. [LC 15/2/2007]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Malay

Named Person

Rajah Muda of Patani

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

1899 - 1900

Collection Name

Skeat Collection

Source

Skeat, Walter William

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: In his reports on the 1899 Cambridge Expedition, Skeat mentions that the party attended a wedding between the Rajah’s sister and the Rajah Muda of Kelantan; this may have been where they met the Raja Muda of Patani [Skeat, W.W. 1900. Report on Cambridge Exploring to the Malay Provinces of Lower Siam. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 30, No. 74, p.75; 1901. Notes on the Ethnography of the Malay Peninsula. Man Vol. 1, No. 142, p.179; 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.19-21]

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

P.46077.SKT-P.46097.SKT were found in the envelope now numbered C153/2/.
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]