Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper labels adhered to object with printed text reads: '16 AA 3'. The '16 AA' likely corresponds to field collection numbers used by W.W. Skeat and the 3 corresponds to the numbering in the published catalogue.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

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. 3 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): '1-3. Three Sarong, the Malay ‘skirt’ or waistcloth, of distinct patterns. Worn both by men and women (see Nos. 270 and 996-998).'
Event Date 1899
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)
Tubular length of reddish-pink ikat weave cloth, kain limau, probably for use as a sarong. With parallel bands of green and red stripes, with lines of gold metallic embroidery and leaf shaped patterns outlined in yellow. A pattern of facing isosceles triangles in centre. Loosely hemmed on 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 from 1902 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 24/11/20025.
Event Date 21/7/2020
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 24/10/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (Physical description)
Sarong of an ikat woven cloth sewn into a tube. Purple background with patterns woven in yellow, green, blue, red, white, pink, and orange. Most of the body is woven with green and red stripes interspersed with bands of purple with white curvilinear designs; gold metal thread stripes throughout; band of floral pattern 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

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