Description (Labels & Markings)
Two old paper labels stuck to the inside of the cloth read: "211" and "13BY".
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Sub-rectangular label adhered to curtain: 'S.C. 213 a / (I[?]) / Wedding curt[ain])'
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: Diana Serediuc

Context (References)
Listed as No. 213 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: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Made up of alternate amber, maroon and blue strips. Each strip is embroidered and hand sewn to the next strip.; Very poor. Holes. Also tears which are pinned together.
Event Date 27/10/1995
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A piece of cloth. Database record reads 'cotton' but fabric appears more like silk.
Event Date 4/6/2001
Author: Diana Serediuc

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1095 | Repack
Event Date 9/4/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Large patchwork woven textile of silk (?) panels; constructed of 3 main fabrics a red, yellow and blue/green to form a sari or large drape; item appears unfinished - still pinned and tacked in places.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Curtain. Large piece of silk with multiple pieces sewn together. Dark red backing with vertical bands in the colours of yellow, green and red which repeat along the length. Red, gold and green flower decoration embroidered all over the top. Evidence of several contemporary repairs. Four pieces of the same fabric were previously pinned with metal pins at the bottom. Thye have been removed and now there's a gap.
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899) notes: 'A striped curtain used at weddings, with ornate fringe.'
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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 24/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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