Description (Labels & Markings)
Hand written pencil label notes "(II:392f) / [?] woman's sarong / Tremangan [unclear words]
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: Diana Serediuc

Context (Amendments / updates)
Noted as as a 'sarong' and 'kain limau' a single weft-ikat cloth.
Event Date 2005
Author: Diana Serediuc

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)
Blue waistcloth or sarong with red, white and yellow checks
Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Thought to be part of the Skeat Collections not accessioned by 1988. The W.Skeat collections, comprise two separate collections, Skeat I (originally donated in 1899) and Skeat II (purchased in 1902). Neither of these collections were fully accessioned until the 1980s (?1985-6) when objects was given Z numbers. The black printed number and letter suffixes adhered to objects and often listed on the catalogue cards may be display numbers, as the collection was exhibited without accessioning.


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 24/11/20025.

Noted by Jean Somervile, 2005, as as a 'sarong' and 'kain limau' a single weft-ikat cloth.

Event Date 21/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Recorded as No. 392: 'specimen of sarong made from ?lome pun thread' in the MS Register of the Second Skeat Collection (MAA Archive, MM1/10/36).
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Kain limau. Sarong. Long rectangular single weft fabric with a checkered pattern on a blue backing with red and white lines. Red border at both edges.
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

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: Diana Serediuc