Context (Acquisition Details)
The 14th Annual Report (1899) noted that 'Mr Walter W. Skeat, M.A., District Magistrate of Larut, Selangor, Perak, has presented his extensive collection of Malay and Sakei weapons, implements, costumes, models, etc., comprising over a thousand specimens. This collection, the result of many years residence in the country, fills a considerable gap in the Museum series, and is the more valuable as many of the objects it embraces are actually no longer in use among the people, or are being rapidly displaced by European goods. By Grace, 10 February, 1898, Reporter, p. 486, the thanks of the University were offered to the donor for this most valuable gift.
The cost of packing and conveyance to Singapore was defrayed by the donor; while his father, Professor Skeat, generously paid the expenses of transit from Singapore to Cambridge; so that the collection was received by the University free of cost'.

Listed in the 14th Annual Report (1899) under 'Appendix II Skeat Collection./This collection was formed by the donor, Mr Walter W. Skeat, M.A., District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor in the years 1896 and 1897'.
Event Date 1899
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Card has following entry: " The criminal is despatched by a downward thrust just inside the left collar-bone, a piece of cotton wool being first laid on the skin. The blade passing through the vital organs causes instantaneous death and the wadding which has been driven into the wound acts like a plug and stops the flow of blood"

Event Date 20/1/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 33294 noted 'Two executioner' s krises with exceptionally long straight blades'
Event Date 20/1/1987
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
"Exec. K. Poinjang, Sumatra (2X)"
Event Date 31/7/1997
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Wooden sheath and crosspiece,with missing inlaid section at base known as 'cockroach's tail'. With straight edged iron blade, and wooden handle/head topped with a floral motif. Fragment of cloth at base of tang of the handle/head into blade
Event Date 20/11/2023
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
Copper wire removed from below knife's head, indicating a display history prior to 1990.
Event Date 20/11/2023
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
"S.C. 117" written on sheath in white ink
Event Date 20/11/2023
Author: rachel hand