Description (Physical description)
Original description, likely from catalogue card: 'Pattern: cross design, dull red, blue and cream.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Related Documents)
Historic label found with jacket: 'I.5 / Baju gunt. Bugis'
Originally marked 'I.2' in pencil, but later amended to 'I.5'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed numbers adhered inside opening: '16A 5'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Labelled in the lining with black ink: 'Gunting Bugis'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Amendments / updates)
There are six cards, all bearing the Z number 33792, and all evidently describing different objects. The contents of each card has been reproduced at time of computer transcription. Card reads: "Labelled I.2. but list[ed] no. I.5".
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: Katrina Dring

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): The 'B.[aju] gunting Bugis', ie. Jacket of Bugis (Celebes) cut, which closely resembles the last [Skeat I: 4].'


Event Date 1899
Author: maa

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Context (Other owners)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): 'Obtained from Toh Aru, formerly the greatest of the four chiefs of Selangor'
Event Date 1899
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (References)
Listed as No. 5 (2) 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

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Description (Physical description)
The beige lining of the jacket is badly torn. The edge on the inside are lines with a striped red and beige cloth. The outside has a red, green and beige design with a little bit of gold thread.
Event Date 26/9/2005
Author: Katrina Dring

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Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.384 | Repack
Event Date 9/2/2015
Author: cft31

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Description (Physical description)
Textile garment (tunic). Flared toward bottom. Red, blue, and white with gold thread. Interior lining cream with decoration of dots and circles. Edged with parallel bands of red and white and gold.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

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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 17/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Physical description)
Man's jacket with flared bottom and an asymmetrical opening. Long sleeved jacket with short, upright collar, fitted waist and flared bottom; made from a woven checked fabric decorated with small squares and crosses; collar, opening, hem and cuffs are lined with diagonally striped red fabric containing metallic thread; interior is lined with woven cream fabric printed with circles.
Event Date 17/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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