IDNO

P.57174.EVN

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.17346.EVN: "Malaya. 142.7.
Patani - Malay woman, and Kedah woman, with Siamese blood."

On related negative N.12531.EVN: "Malays
Pandak's two wives, Perak." [manuscript in ink, Evan's handwriting]

Full-length portrait of two women, the two wives of Pandak, standing on grass in front of a small tree. The woman on the left wears a sarong with a floral pattern, a necklace and a white blouse with wide sleeves. Beside her, the other woman wears a plain sarong, loose white blouse with lace at the hem and cuffs and a sash over her right shoulder. She is carrying a cloth in her right hand. [EB 01/02/2023]

Place

SE Asia; Malaysia

Cultural Affliation

Patani Malay

Named Person

Photographer

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Collector / Expedition

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Date

October 1913

Collection Name

Evans Collection

Source

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found inside C273/ which was kept in Wooden Drawer IV.
P.57172.EVN to P.57176.EVN are from the Evans Collection.

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 23/9/2007]