Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads: 'Other number inside garment 16 R)'; And: '(However, no mention of it being a model)'; And: 'Also Arabic writing on label'.
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
There are six catalogue 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. According to the card, this item is Skeat I: 8.
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

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

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten paper label adhered fabric: 'I.8 [Arabic script] B. Těkŭa chěkeg musang I [paper label] 8'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Description (Physical description)
'Baju těkŭa chěkeg musang': literally 'Těkŭa jacket choke polecat' ie. jacket with tight collar. (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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Context (References)
Listed as No. 8 (a) (5) 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)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): '(5) the B. těkŭa chěkeg Musang, literally 'Těkŭa jacket choke polecat,' i.e. J. with a tight collar'
Event Date 1899
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Description (Physical description)
Miniature of a long-sleeved jacket made of dark red cloth with white designs. It has a high collar. The Arm openings and the neck opening are trimmed with an orange and red cord.
Event Date 12/9/2005
Author: Heather Donoghue

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Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.374 | Repack
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: cft31

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Description (Physical description)
Miniature garment (tunic/top). Waxed appearance. Dark red with white 'floral', gentle 'S'-shape pattern. Red and orange trim around cuffs and collar.
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: Heather Donoghue

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Description (Physical description)
Baju Těkŭa Chěkeg Musang. Model men’s jacket or tunic of waxed cotton; dark red in colour with repeated white leaf-shape motifs made up of three lines and three central dots. Closed tunic with long sleeves, round neck opening, ribbed raised collar and v-shaped front opening closed by single stitch; lined with white cotton and edged with red and orange cord. Cuffs edged with same cord. Seams hand stitched in white cotton.
Event Date 17/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

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