Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to Z 33786.4 with printed text reads: '13BA'. This likely corresponds to field collection numbers used by W.W. Skeat.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular textile consisting of a mustard yellow cloth, decorated with curvilinear designs of gold paper sewn to purple woollen cloth edged in red woollen cloth.

Event Date 24/7/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (Physical description)
The alphanumeric number found on this object is characteristic of a numbering system associated with the collections formed by Walter William Skeat. However, It is missing its Skeat catalogue number and cannot currently be match to an entry in the Skeat I or Skeat II catalogues.
Event Date 15/10/2024
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 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular cloth possibly a pillow case or a pillow in dark yellow with attached embroidered panels on all fours sides. The panels are decorated with couched gold bands and floral motif on a purple woollen back which is placed between the layers. One thin orange boarder attached on the upper and lower side of the panels. Glass panels cracking with areas missing. Many areas of the purple back has been eaten by pests.

Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Thought to be part of the Skeat Collections not accessioned by 1988. This object was found in a box marked as being unaccessioned Skeat Malaysian textiles. According to a note by Fanny Veys and Jean Somerville, dated 24/11/2005, twenty-one textiles, now TEMP.01087.1-21, were noted as possibly belonging to the Skeat I series but could not be matched to any of the object descriptions during the Shorts Textile Project. The twenty-one similar textiles encompass a series of printed black numbers from 13 BA- BZ, but BC, BR, BS, BT, and BY were not located by Rachel Hand in 2020.
Event Date 15/10/2024
Author: rachel hand

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