Description (Physical description)
Possibly part of a loom. Long hollow bamboo pole with two round holes in the middle and two square holes either end. One end split from top of a square hole.
Event Date 7/9/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The label affixed to this object has 'Skeat' written in ink, but faded. However, It is missing its Skeat catalogue number and cannot currently be match to an entry in the Skeat I or Skeat II catalogues.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

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 11/2/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller