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: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Listed as No. 210 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: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue of First Skeat Collection (1899): '210-212. Two pairs of scroll-shaped ends for curtain rods, covered, as has recently become the fashion, with embroidered cloth; and a single, old, carved, end...'
Event Date 1899
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Amendments / updates)
Part of the Skeat collection not accessioned in 1988
Event Date 14/2/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A pair of curtain rod ends. Wooden scroll shaped ends covered with red cloth with gold embroidery and mirrors.

Event Date 14/2/2020
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 14/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
A pair of scroll-shaped wooden curtain finials covered with embroidered cloth. Scroll-shaped ends are covered with fabric; striped cotton on one side alternating between bands of a black and white linear pattern and a red, black, and white floral pattern; other side is covered in velvet with yellow velvet around the edges and red towards the middle; red velvet has gold appliqué work in a curling floral design with five coloured glass panels; wooden ends come to squared points.
Event Date 14/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Conservation (Investigation)
CON.2024.6043 | Investigation
Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: Stephanie De Roemer

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