SEA-012 - museum specimen
Pattani (people not named)
Thailand - Pattani, lower Siam (Malay coast) - Southeast Asia
Function not recorded
baling / berbaling
Source term: baling
Malay baling / berbaling, 'to whirl, revolve' — the name the expedition recorded at both Pattani and Jalor.
In the market town of Pattani, on the Malay coast of lower Siam, the naturalists Nelson Annandale and Herbert Robinson picked up a whirling rig built like a fishing rod: a sword-shaped blade barely a hand long, corded to a stick that runs past a metre. The Malay name they recorded, baling or berbaling, is the word for whirling round. Who swung it in Pattani, and for what, went unrecorded — inland at Jalor the same expedition found its small twin driving elephants out of the plantations.
- Object
- PRM 1902.88.99: a wooden blade of 'sword shape', 256 x 25 mm, on a cord tied to a 1.2 m stick — the complete rig, collected 1901-02.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Pattani town, the museum's recorded collection place.
- Source location
- PRM 1902.88.99