Context (Amendments / updates)
There are 4 cards, all with the Z number 33794, 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. This item is labelled Skeat I: 14, but tallies with Skeat I: 17 except that it is not a model. The item needs to be rechecked against the Skeat Catalogue I.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Collarless coat and half at neck, long sleeved. In purple satin. Trefoil design: cream with blue and green spots in alternate rows.
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

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

Context (References)
Listed as No. 14 or 17 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

Description (Physical description)
The round neck opening of the object is orange at the inside. F. Veys, 26/9/2005'

Event Date 26/9/2005
Author: maa

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.385 | Repack
Event Date 9/2/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Textile garment (tunic). Purple with regular floral pattern all over - yellow with blue and green.
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

Context (Amendments / updates)
This jacket appears to more closely match entry 14 in the Skeat I catalogue, which is '(5) the Baju Kurong, worn as a wedding-dress with the Sarong'. However, it has been marked on the inside of the neck with Tělok b'langa, which corresponds to number 17 in the catalogue. 17 is described as a model, whereas this is full-size. It may be that this object was incorrectly marked with the Malay term. More research into the difference between the two terms needs to be done in order to determine, which applies to this object.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
?Tělok b'langa; ?Baju Kurong. Women’s jacket or tunic of magenta cloth. Cloth appears to be woven with cotton on the weft and silk on the warp creating a different texture on the outside and inside; decorated with repeated rows of a flower motif in gold with purple or green dots in the middle. Closed tunic with round neck opening and v-shaped front opening; collar lined with orange fabric.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

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