Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads: 'Catalogue says: 'one pair of the S. Acheh ie. Achinese trousers, worn by men.' (However, no mention of it being a model)'; And: '(Other number inside garment 16 W 20)'
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Author: Heather Donoghue

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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.


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Author: maa

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Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten paper label found bagged with object: 'I 20 Sěluar Acheh'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed paper label adhered to inside of fabric: '20'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

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

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Description (Physical description)
'Sěluar Acheh'. (Miniature)
Event Date
Author: maa

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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

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): 'Five Sěluar, Trousers; viz.: 18-22. (3) one pair of the S. Acheh, i.e. Achinese Trousers, worn by men'
Event Date 1899
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Context (References)
Listed as No. 20 (3) 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

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Description (Physical description)
Small white trousers with light and dark blue motifs. The trouser has a pink, blue and white draw string. Waistband is lined with a blue floral printed cloth.
Event Date 12/9/2005
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.368 | Repack
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: cft31

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Description (Physical description)
Miniature garment (trousers). White with blue floral pattern. Multicoloured drawstring around waist.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Sěluar Acheh. Model trousers of cream cotton printed with blue quatrefoil and foliate motifs. Waistband lined with blue cotton printed with red, blue and green flower and leaf motifs. Drawstring waist with cotton tie printed with blue, pink, red and green linear bands and multicoloured patterned edge.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

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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: Heather Donoghue

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