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: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899) notes: 'Four wedding favours, of fan pattern and other designs, with ornate streamers. They are presented to every guest attending a wedding; and so strictly was this etiquette enforced in former days, that a wife would seek a divorce from her husband should he return from a wedding without his favour.'
Event Date 1899
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Amendments / updates)
Listed as No. 733 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: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 33803 notes: Fan shaped object, embroidered with trees and yellow deer on pinkish red background ?Wedding favour of fan pattern; Tree; Deer
Event Date 1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Decorated with gold metallic embroidery on edges and around deer, with netted fringe in red/yellow thread on one half. Red cotton cloth wrapped wooden or cane handle loose but stable.
Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Two sided multicoloured wedding favour fan with netted fringe in red/yellow thread on one half and made from two pieces. The handle made from possibly cane covered in red cloth. The front of the fan is decorated with a variety of patterns including a tree in the centre with flowers and leaves around it on a red back. The most prominent colours are dark and light green, turquoise blue, dark and light pink. The other side of the fan consists of two reindeers facing each other on the bottom part of the fan with yellow, turquoise blue and white, and purple flowers an leaves around them.


Event Date 18/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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 18/10/2024
Author: maa

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 27/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan