Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed paper label inside the garment notes: '16 F 13.'
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten paper label adhered to the inside of the garment notes: 'I 12. Kebaya.'
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Labels & Markings)
Written in pen on the collar on the inside: ' Kebaya' 'pesak lengkeng'
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

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: Diana Serediuc

Context (References)
Listed as No. 12 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 1898
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899) notes: '(3, 4) two Kěbaya pěrěmpuan, i.e. Woman’s Kebaya jacket, with opening the whole way down the front'
Event Date 1899
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
One silk jacket has a green, yellow and purple check and is labelled I 12. Pesak lengkeng.
Event Date 24/11/2005
Author: maa

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.405 | Repack
Event Date 10/2/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Textile silk garment (tunic). Green with tartan pattern (yellow and purple). More robust fabric (cotton? jute?) as inner lining, only as far as waist.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Z 33793.1-4 relate to entries 10-13 in the first Skeat collection catalogue and, as described, there are two baju gâmis and two kěbaya pěrěmpuan. However, the numbering adhered to each garment is not always consistent with the numbering and descriptions given in the first catalogue, a situation not easily rectified, as some garments appear to have been assigned more than one number and others the same number. There are, however, the correct number and type of garments present in the sequence.
Event Date 22/10/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

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: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Kěbaya pěrěmpuan. Green silk jacket or tunic with tartan pattern with yellow and purple lines; long sleeves, and full front opening. The inside of the garment has a white cotton inner layer. The front panels, sleeves and hems hand stitched with green thread.
Event Date 25/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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