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: Lucie Carreau

Context (References)
Listed as one of six, Nos. 262-267, 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: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): [One of six] 'Needlework decorations, occasionally added to pillow-ends. One for an octagonal marriage bolster ("bantal sa-raja"), used only by Rajahs. One for bolster, as above. Two for pillow ("susor azi"). Two for small, triangular pillow.'
Event Date 1899
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Embroidery panel for a pillow. Square panel of woven cream cotton, decorated with floral silk embroidery in yellow, blue, green, pink, cream and brown; includes circular gold coloured glass panels; stitched onto a woven cream cotton backing with a rectangular panel of cloth added to one side. Glass panels cracking.
Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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 15/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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