Description (Labels & Markings)
Label one reads in pencil '(II 535/ wax polished cloth). The second label reads in pencil (II 534)/ waxed cotton sarong'.

The second label is stuck to a third label, also written in pencil, but which is faded and mainly illegible, but may read '535/ sami'/ --- ---- .

A printed label in two parts notes '5' and '35' is a stuck to the third label.

Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
This object was collected by Walter William Skeat on the Cambridge Exploring Expedition to the Malay Provinces of Lower Siam, 1899-1900.
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Recorded as either No. 534 or 535 in the MS Register of the Second Skeat Collection (MAA Archive, MM1/10/36).
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Manuscript Catalogue of Second Skeat Collection (1900), MAA Archive MM1/10/36 description for 534: 'sarong waxed and polished with cowry shell'. The description for 535 reads: 'do', which is understood to mean ditto.
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Narrow length of blue checked fabric, waxed on one side.
Event Date 29/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Sarong made of a narrow and long piece of dark blue fabric with groups of thin light blue stripes; thin stripes going across the other way creating a checked pattern at each end. Fabric is waxed on one side.
Event Date 23/10/2024
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 23/10/2024
Author: rachel hand