Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper labels adhered to object with printed text reads: '16Y 1'. This corresponds to field collection numbers used by W.W. Skeat and the numbering in the catalogue.
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Labels & Markings)
Hand written pencil label attached: 'S.C. 997/ (I)/[unclear word]'
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Field collection)
This object was collected by Walter William Skeat, District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor, Malaysia, 1896-1897.
Event Date 1897
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Listed as No. 1 or 997 in the Catalogue of the First Skeat Collection: Skeat, Walter W. 1899. The Skeat Collection. Catalogue of the Ethnological Collection from the Malay Peninsula presented to the University in 1898 by the Collector. University of Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Event Date 1899
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
This tube-shaped skirt is decorated with a red, blue, yellow and white tartan pattern. There is a little hole in the piece.
Event Date 26/9/2005
Author: maa

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.382 | Repack
Event Date 9/2/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Checkered skirt/waistcloth. Mostly red and blue. One side mostly red, other side mostly blue.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sarong of a woven silk and cotton cloth sewn into a tube. Cream background with checked pattern in red, blue, yellow, and black; red band at the top and bottom; thick red section going across on one side.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Amendments / updates)
W.W. Skeat made two collections in Southeast Asia. The first was made while he was District Magistrate in Selangor, Malaysia in 1896-1897 and is known as the First Skeat Collection or Skeat I. The Second was made in 1899-1900 on the Cambridge Exploring Expedition to the Malay Provinces of Lower Siam and known as the Second Skeat Collection, or Skeat II. Most objects were not given accession numbers on acquisition by MAA, and given Z Numbers during reorganisation in the 1980s. Several objects presumed to be from the Skeat Collections, but which cannot be traced either to an existing Z number or to Skeat’s catalogues, have been given TEMP numbers. Some of these are definitely Skeat, and some are not. The work of matching objects to their Skeat catalogue numbers is ongoing and likely to remain incomplete.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: maa

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6089 | Freezing
Event Date 8/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan