Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads: 'Catalogue says - '7 children's dress ornaments viz 23-29 (1-4). 4 boy's 'barut', 3 of the 'gantong', and one of the 'Kreta' variety.' (However, no mention is made of this being a model)'; Card also reads: 'Arabic label also on item' Collected by: Skeat.W.W in 1896; 1897.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten paper label adhered to red side of fabric: 'Barut Kreta [Arabic script] I.26 I [paper label] 26'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Barut Krěta (miniature)
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed paper label adhered to dark side of fabric: '16V'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

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: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): '(1-4) four boys' Barut, three of the gantong and one of the Krěta variety'
Event Date 1899
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (References)
Listed as No. 26 (4) 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: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular piece of cloth - one side is red, the other is black with floral pattern - with three strips sewn on. Two strips are red, one is purple. The label is glued to the piece.
Event Date 12/9/2005
Author: Heather Donoghue

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.369 | Repack
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular textile (bib/apron?). 3 sets of ties. Obverse: dark blue with red floral pattern. Reverse: red with floral pattern.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

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 14/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Barut Krěta. Model of a rectangular cloth, possibly a binding or bib, for young or possibly infant males. Made from two rectangles of cotton cloth sewn together. One side is dark brown with red flowers printed in a diamond pattern and interspersed with beige and red flower motifs; three horizontal ties, two red and one brown, are stitched to the centre. The opposing side is red with a beige repeated flower pattern.
Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

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