Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper labels adhered to object with printed text reads: '392'. This corresponds to the numbering in the unpublished catalogue.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Hand written pencil label attached "II 392e/ Homespun cloth/ Tremangan"
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Recorded as No. 392e in the MS Register of the Second Skeat Collection (MAA Archive, MM1/10/36).
Event Date 1900
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

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

Context (Amendments / updates)
"Tremangan" is also spelt "Tremangam" in J.L. Bonhote, 1901. On the birds collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Waist cloth or sarong made of homespun cloth in cream with bands of four blue and single red stripes. Cut and fraying on length ends. The blue stripes are smudged as if they have become wet and bled dye onto the cream.
Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Presumed to be part of the W.Skeat collection II purchased in 1902 but not accessioned and given Z numbers by 1985.
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)
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)
Sarong made of a length of starched cotton cloth. White background woven with groups of four blue stripes alternating with a single red stripe; maroon band across each end.
Event Date 24/10/2024
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

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 28/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan