IDNO

P.46150.SKT

Description

A group of five "Palace Malays" and one boy sit on the ground of a ?palace compound, playing "chess" around a carved wooden board with small pieces on it.
In the background, standing inside the ?porch of a building, stands a ?British man in a white suit, probably one of the Cambridge Expedition members. [LC 1/3/2007]

Place

SE Asia; Thailand; Pattani [Siam; Patani]

Cultural Affliation

Malay; ?British

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

Place: According to Skeat’s writing on the duplicate of this image, P.46154.SKT, this picture was taken in the courtyard of the palace, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. However, if the photographer was indeed Gwynne-Vaughan, it is unlikely to have been taken in Kota Bharu, as he had left for England by the time the party got there. [Gibson-Hill, C.A. 1953. Introduction, ‘The Cambridge University Expedition to the North-Eastern Malay States, and to Upper Perak 1899-1900’. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 26, Part 4, pp.6-7. [Liana Chua 1/3/2007]

This print was kept in a box now numbered C153/ by the cataloguer. This box was formerly numbered 160.
P.46150.SKT-P.46175.SKT were found in the envelope now numbered C153/5/.
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 1/3/2007]