Context (Found together / assemblage)
TIBET or NOT? Found under table in Shorts Textile 1.
Event Date 14/8/2003
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular length of woven cotton textile. Purple with a central field of yellow/orange stripes
Event Date 5/11/2018
Author: rachel hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found with four other un-accessioned and unlabelled textile fragments under the table in the textile store in 2003. However the style and patterns are reminiscent of Asia and Malaysian textiles. It is possible that these are part of a larger group of un-accessioned Skeat textiles, some of which were found stored in the Textile store in 2005 during the Shorts DCF Project, and were never fully rationalised.
Event Date 5/11/2018
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 17/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object does not bear any labels or inscriptions to identify it as part of the Skeat Collections. Walter William Skeat has been retained (but queried) in the source field solely based on the fact that the object was found in the 1980s in a box labelled ‘SKEAT COLL.’. Its provenance requires further investigation.
Event Date 17/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Long rectangular piece of cloth comprised on a purple with red inserts backing with a central design of horizontal thin orange lines. Loose threads with hems undone.
Event Date 17/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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