Context (Acquisition Details)
The 14th Annual Report (1899) noted that 'Mr Walter W. Skeat, M.A., District Magistrate of Larut, Selangor, Perak, has presented his extensive collection of Malay and Sakei weapons, implements, costumes, models, etc., comprising over a thousand specimens. This collection, the result of many years residence in the country, fills a considerable gap in the Museum series, and is the more valuable as many of the objects it embraces are actually no longer in use among the people, or are being rapidly displaced by European goods. By Grace, 10 February, 1898, Reporter, p. 486, the thanks of the University were offered to the donor for this most valuable gift.
The cost of packing and conveyance to Singapore was defrayed by the donor; while his father, Professor Skeat, generously paid the expenses of transit from Singapore to Cambridge; so that the collection was received by the University free of cost'.
Event Date 1899
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
In the 14th Annual Report, Appendix II entitled "Skeat Collection", the object was given No. 845, under "15. Witchcraft and Medicine" The object was described, "1. Jin Puteh, The White Jin;"
Event Date 1899
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Listed in the 14th Annual Report (1899) 'Appendix II Skeat Collection./This collection was formed by the donor, Mr Walter W. Skeat, M.A., District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor in the years 1896 and 1897'.
Event Date 1899
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card of object Z 33228, which is classified also under 15. Witchcraft and Medicine and in the same box with Z 33227, reads "See Z 33201".

Catalogue card of Z 33201 indicates that the objects in Skeat's first collecting journey took place in 1896-1897, and these objects were accessioned "in 1878", which is probably a mistake as the museum was not yet founded until 1885. It should be accessioned in 1898.
Event Date 5/1/1987
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Sketch diagrams on catalogue card.
Event Date 5/1/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Wooden figure of white jin-a ghost or spirit. Made of light coloured wood.
Event Date 5/1/1987
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed number "21A" pasted to object. These were the numbers supplied to Skeat by von Hügel as noted in the Skeat correspondence.
Event Date 28/11/2023
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Light-coloured wooden figure of Jin Puteh, or the White Jin. The figure wears a pointed hat, the. colour (pale red) of which has faded. There is strings of hair attached in holes on the face, head, and chest of the figure. The figure has a round base, and can stand stably on their own. There is a hole on the base.

A stick with hole and painted black on one end and in the middle was found (November 2023). The object was chemically marked as Z 33227 (unknown date), but no record shows the figure is accompanied with the stick.
Event Date 28/11/2023
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu