Context (Display)
Two pieces of copper wire removed from object meaning it was probably on display at some point.
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Recorded as No. 14 in the MS Register of the Second Skeat Collection (MAA Archive, MM1/10/36).
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Field collection)
This object was collected by Walter William Skeat on the Cambridge Exploring Expedition to the Malay Provinces of Lower Siam, 1899-1900.
Event Date 1900
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Manuscript Catalogue of Second Skeat Collection (1900), MAA Archive MM1/10/36: 'Malay loom purchased at Biserat (Jala) with cloth half woven upon it.'
Event Date 1900
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 23/1/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Loom formed of two large sections of dark wood, one with tapered ends and one flatter piece with carving at each end. Piece with tapered ends has a square cut out on each side just in from each end; flatter piece has curly pattern carved into each end. Between these is an unfinished piece of red checked cloth with yellow, cream, and blue stripes; there is a wooden loom reed just below the woven edge of the cloth. Bundled with the unwoven threads is a wooden weaving sword or beater for beating the weft. Long warp threads are left unwoven.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6141 | Freezing
Event Date 3/2/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan