Accession No

Z 33786.9


Description

Small rectangular joined strips of fabric. The front red woollen section is decorated with curvilinear designs in gold ?paper, inlaid with coloured, glass, (most missing), and backed with plain white cotton. The rear is black and red/white stripes with chevrons.


Place

Asia; Southeast Asia; ?Malaysia


Period

?late 19th century


Source

Skeat, Walter William [filed collector and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

Z 33786.9; Skeat I: 215; 13A [Skeat collection no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Wool; Cotton; Glass; Metal; Lead alloy


Local Term

Sampeian kain [Malay]


Measurements


Events

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)
Sampeian kain. Five long rectangular streamers of the Satangkei pattern made out of two lengths of panels sewn together at both edges.
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 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc


Context (Field collection)
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 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc


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