Accession No

Z 33795.1


Description

Sěluar panjang. Pair of long striped silk trousers. Maroon with white, blue, yellow, green, and black stripes. Long, rectangular legs; inserted panels at crotch and inner legs; wide waistband of red fabric; hemmed at bottom of trousers.


Place

Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Peninsular Malaysia; Selangor; Kuala Langat District


Period


Source

Skeat, Walter William [field collector and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

Z 33795.1; ?18 [Skeat I Coll.]; ?19 [Skeat I Coll.]; 16 H [field collection no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Cloth; Silk


Local Term

Sěluar panjang [Malay]


Measurements

845mm x 1045mm


Events

Context (Amendments / updates)
There are 5 cards, all with the Z number 33795, and all apparently describing different objects (although there is an amount of ambiguity). The contents of each card has been reproduced at time of computer transcription.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
One pair of the ' Seluar panjang' ie. long trousers for men in striped (vertical) maroon silk.

Event Date
Author: maa


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


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): '18-22. (1, 2) two pairs of the S. panjang, i.e. Long Trousers'
Event Date 1899
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller


Context (References)
Listed as No. 18 or 19 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


Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.404 | Repack
Event Date 10/2/2015
Author: cft31


Description (Physical description)
Textile garment (trousers). Red waistband. Legs mostly red, decorated with vertical stripes.
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 25/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller


Description (Physical description)
Sěluar panjang. Pair of long striped silk trousers. Maroon with white, blue, yellow, green, and black stripes. Long, rectangular legs; inserted panels at crotch and inner legs; wide waistband of red fabric; hemmed at bottom of trousers.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller


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


FM:78304

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