Description (Physical description)
Textile tube, presumably a sarong, of woven ?silk purple cloth decorated with regular pattern of embroidered gold stars in metal thread, edged in bands of burgundy with central section of reddish pink.
Event Date 25/2/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Sarong of woven silk sewn into a tube. Purple cloth with wide central red stripe down one side; burgundy stripe down the two edges; decorated with regular pattern of embroidered gold stars in metal thread; red panel has central band of metal thread embroidery and a strip of embroidery where the colour changes from purple to red.
Event Date 24/10/2024
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 24/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object does not bear any labels or inscriptions to identify it as part of the Skeat Collections. Walter William Skeat has been retained (but queried) in the source field solely based on the fact that the object was found in the 1980s in a box labelled ‘SKEAT COLL.’. Its provenance requires further investigation.’
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: rachel hand

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