Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card for Z 33811 [A-E]: 'House prepared for wedding - ceremony. It shows the formally arranged wedding pillows, the curtain with the clothes rod and a decorated rice-vessel [Punan]. The bride and bridegroom are shown seated side-by-side on the dais.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Collected by donor, Walter William Skeat, M.A., of Christ’s College, District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor in the years 1896 and 1897. Donated to the Museum in 1899

Event Date 1896
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Museum of General and Local Archaeology and of Ethnology Fourteenth Annual Report (1899: 26, Appendix II, No. 714). 'A house prepared for a wedding-ceremony. It shows the formally arranged wedding pillows (see Nos. 225—261), the curtain with the clothes rod (see No. 215) and a decorated punan, rice-vessel. The bride and bridegroom are shown seated side by side on the dais.'
Event Date 1899
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
No Number 73: Model of a building.
Event Date 25/7/2001
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Part of the collection noted as Skeat I and originally donated in 1899. The collections was only accessioned in the 1980s (?1985-6) when objects were given Z numbers.
Event Date 6/7/2022
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5833 | Remedial
Event Date 14/12/2023
Author: Ayesha Fuentes

Description (Physical description)
Model of a house prepared for a wedding ceremony. Frame made from cane with walls and roof made from leaves; raised wooden floor covered with sheets of paper with handwriting; bride and groom in wedding dress seated on a raised plinth with cushions; plinth decorated with paper cutouts including silvered paper and coloured foil; fabric hangings of silk, cotton and wool suspended around the walls of the house; conical wooden element in front of the plinth; two figures in skirts with fans suspended at the front. Detachable elements Z 33811 B-E are part of the model.
Event Date 14/3/2024
Author: Katrina Dring