Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to Z 33786.3 with printed text reads: '13AU'. This likely corresponds to field collection numbers used by W.W. Skeat.
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to Z 33786.4 with printed text reads: '13AT'. This likely corresponds to field collection numbers used by W.W. Skeat.
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Field collection)
These objects were collected by Walter William Skeat, District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor, Malaysia, 1896-1897.
Event Date 1897
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899) notes: 'seven streamers, sampeian kain, of the Satangkei pattern, for this clothes rod.'
Event Date 1899
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (References)
Z 33786.3-4 are listed as part of 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: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Small rectangular joined strips of fabric. The front red woollen section is decorated with curvilinear designs in gold ?paper, inlaid with colored, glass, (most missing), and backed with plain white cotton. The rear is black and red/white stripes with chevrons. Insect, ?moth, damage to woollen strips. Metal pin removed suggested display history
Event Date 29/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Sampeian kain. Two long rectangular streamers of the Satangkei pattern made out of two lengths of panels sewn together at both edges. .3: the front panel is decorated with couched gold bands with flower motif on a red red velvet back; five small openings across the length with coloured glass inside; 1 panel is missing and the rest are cracked. The second panel is decorated with four horizontal lines in red and white on a black back. .4: the front panel is decorated with couched gold bands with flower motif on a red red velvet back; five small openings across the length with coloured glass inside; three panels are missing and two are cracked. The second panel is decorated with four horizontal lines in red and white on a black back.
Event Date 15/10/2024
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 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Paper label for Z 33786.3 notes: 'S.C 215 F (II 13 AT streamer.'
Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Amendments / updates)
Z 33786.4 doesn't have the Skeat catalogue number label on it. However, it has the same field collection number of '13AT' hence this object will be considered as such.
Event Date 17/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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