Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899) for 214 a-c: 'three fringes for a mosquito curtain'.
Event Date 1899
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Listed as No. 214c 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: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
A short broad band of white cotton covered with dark red cloth with golden floral designs. the central panel is decorated with pieces of felt (green, red, yellow) arranged in geometric designs. At the bottom, pendants backed with printed cloth are all, but one, embroidered with golden thread and decorated with small "mirrors". All the pendants but two have coloured tassels.
Event Date 13/9/2005
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.490 | Repack
Event Date 20/2/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Three fringes for a mosquito curtain, each with white cotton background bordered by red cotton embroidered with gold. Central pattern made from strips of wool (yellow, green and red in one, and yellow, blue and red in the other two). From the bottom hang woollen pendants with decorations in gold, with mirrors.

Event Date 18/11/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
2 red and gilt metal fabric strips joined by woollen strips of red, green and yellow; lined with cream cotton; drops / pendants of red, yellow and purple faced with couched metallic (gold) thread, some drops with narrow tassels, drops lined with fabric.
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 28/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Fringe for a mosquito curtain. Rectangular band of cream cotton with a strip of red fabric with gold floral decoration on each long edge; strips of red, green, and yellow wool forming crosses and columns in between the fabric strips; ten pendants of maroon and yellow wool, all but one decorated with gold embroidery and coloured glass panels; from the pendants hang tassels of red, yellow and green wool shapes alternating with cylindrical beads.
Event Date 28/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

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 28/10/2024
Author: Lucie Carreau

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