Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to object with printed text reads: '513'. This corresponds to the numbering in the unpublished catalogue of W.W. Skeat.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
This object was collected by Walter William Skeat on the Cambridge Exploring Expedition to the Malay Provinces of Lower Siam, 1899-1900.
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Manuscript Catalogue of Second Skeat Collection (1900), MAA Archive MM1/10/36: 'sarong of the kind called kain limau. Made in Trengganu'
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Recorded as No. 513 in the MS Register of the Second Skeat Collection (MAA Archive, MM1/10/36).
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Amendments / updates)
TEMP.01083.1-22 were found with hand written temporary paper labels numbering 1-22. These have been assumed to be part of a listing process intended to help the cataloguing and identification process during the Textile Project and are not part of a formal catalogue. They have been used as individual suffixes of the TEMP number.

Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Length of reddish-pink ikat weave cloth ?for use as a sarong, with leaf shaped patterns outlines in yellow and facing isosceles triangles in centre. Cut and fraying edges at length ends
Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found in a box of unaccessioned Skeat Malaysian textiles. Twenty-two textiles were noted as belonging to the Skeat II series but could not be matched to any of the object descriptions during the Shorts Textile Project according to a note by Fanny Veys and Jean Somerville, dated 24/11/2005.

Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
This is a kain limar not lemau [which means lemon]. The curvilinear designs represent a mace or chogan and should be orientated with the handle and point in a vertical orientation
Event Date 20/11/2023
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Kain limar. Sarong of an ikat woven cloth. Purple background with patterns woven in yellow, green, blue, and pink. Main motif represents a mace or chogan and is repeated many times; band of woven cross design towards the middle on each side followed by a row of isosceles triangles pointing towards each other; at the very centre is a row of flowers.
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

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