Context (Related Documents)
Printed number found loose inside jacket: '9'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed numbers adhered to lining: '16D'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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. According to the card, this item is Skeat I: 9: the card reads:" labelled 16 D + 9 [therefore] identify as I 9" . This item needs rechecking against the Printed Catalogue I
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Original description, likely from the catalogue card: 'Short, small collared, with half length sleeves and half opening at neck. In maroon silk. Faint diamond pattern overwoven.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): 'B.[aju] kurong' ie. sack jacket.'

Event Date 1899
Author: maa

Context (References)
Listed as No. 9 (6) 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)
The jacket is lined with beige cloth that is decorated with red patterns.
Event Date 24/11/2005
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.362 | Repack
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Woven red and yellow patterned fabric garment lined with cream and red woven cotton, 3/4 sleeves, collarless with short front opening.
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)
Baju Kurong. Man's jacket or shirt. Long sleeved jacket with short, upright collar and slit at the front of the neck; made from a woven red silk decorated with small repeated motifs in metallic thread; interior is lined with woven cream cotton printed with small repeating motifs in red.
Event Date 18/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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