Description (Labels & Markings)
Historic label adhered to fringe: 'S.C. 215 c / (I: 13 AP) / clothes rod fringe'
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label adhered behind middle pendant: '13AP'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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: rachel hand

Context (References)
Listed as No. 215 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] Two ornate fringes, daun-budi, ie. Bo tree leaves (Budi = Ficus religiosus) with scroll decorations (sulor bayong) and seven streamers sampeian kain, of the Satangkei pattern, for this clothes rod.'

Event Date 1899
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular strip of cotton decorated with two appliqued strips of red wool, with appliqued gold ?paper in a chain pattern, inlaid with coloured glass. Between the strips are coloured crossed designs in woollen strips in orange, red, pink, purples and green, with gold ?paper in a quadrangular shape in the centre. Suspended are eleven (red and black) pendents and ten small pendents (orange), with gold metalic embroidery and inlaid coloured glass. Attached are wool tassels with cylindrical beads made form sheet rolled metal, and woollen squares.


Event Date 29/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

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 16/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Daun budi. Fringe of leaf-shaped pendants for a clothes rod used at a marriage. Rectangular band composed of two strips of woven red wool with gilded paper decoration and coloured glass panels; strips of red, orange, purple, blue and green wool forming crosses in between; band is backed with a length of cream woven cotton; eleven large and ten small leaf-shaped pendants of red, black and yellow wool decorated with couched metallic thread and coloured glass panels; from the pendants hang tassels of red, yellow and green wool shapes alternating with metal cylindrical beads; pendants back with paper.
Event Date 16/10/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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