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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: R. Lambert (Singapore photographer), Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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90- SINGAPORE. Singapore, Sunday 21st April 1901... After lunch the four Sultans of the recently federated Malay States in the south of the Malay Peninsula, separated from the island of Singapore by a narrow channel and still independent but already protected state of Johore, come to Government House with a large body of chieftains and retainers to pay...
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15. SINGAPORE. A GROUP OF MALAY CHIEFS
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IV 91 ...their respects to His Royal Highness. It is a picturesque crowd, or rather four picturesque crowds, for each of the groups keeps carefully apart from the others. All are dressed in the national costumes, which are bright and pleasing in colour, but too tight to admit of graceful drapery, and consequently more curious than beautiful. The ordinary retainers wear the simple costume of the country, whilst the chiefs and Court dignitaries are arrayed in much more gorgeous apparel, —long silk trousers or short Achinese pants, silk blouses of many colours with quaint high collar, and on their heads large handkerchiefs, the ends of which are twisted into fantastic points. Of the four potentates the most important are the Sultans of Pahang and Perak, both Malays by birth, but with little else in common. The former is a man of the old school, who has carefully preserved the ancient Court costume and Court etiquette, who has never learned a word of English, and who long struggled and intrigued against British influence. Before him march his mace-bearer carrying the golden Chogan and the principal officers of his household all clad in canary-yellow garments bearing the golden vessels of state.

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  Sir Abdul Samad, Sultan of Selangor, with its retinue in front of the government building in Singapore. 27 Mar 1890, G.R. Lambert & Co. .
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  From the book Photographic Views of Singapore by G.R.Lambert & Co.