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. Card reads: " Catalogue says: ' 5 ' Seluar' , trousers: 2 pairs of the _ , with embroidery." And " Other number on garment 21 16 G" Worn by brides
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Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed numbers adhered to lining: '21 16 G'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Historic label found with object: 'I 21 / brides trousers'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Bride's trousers, with embroidery.'
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: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Listed as No. 21 (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: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): '[one of] two pairs of the _____, (with embroidery), worn by brides'
Event Date 1899
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Maroon, beige and green striped trousers with gold thread woven into the fabric. The lining is red cotton.
Event Date 24/11/2005
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.349 | Repack
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
1 pair of woven red, cream and metallic gilt thread stripped trousers, gusset and leg hems of plain red and gilt woven fabric; whole garment lined with plain red woven cotton, black cotton stitching noted at hems.
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 18/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Sěluar. Pair of women's trousers with low crotch, worn by a bride. Striped silk in dark red and cream with geometric motifs in metallic thread; wider bands of metallic decoration around cuffs and in crotch; small rectangles of red, blue and yellow checkered cotton fabric at front and back of waistband; lined with red cotton. Silk shattered in multiple areas, with possible contemporary repairs.
Event Date 18/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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