Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card for Z 33811 [A-E]: 'House prepared for wedding - ceremony. It shows the formally arranged wedding pillows, the curtain with the clothes rod and a decorated rice-vessel [Punan]. The bride and bridegroom are shown seated side-by-side on the dais.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Collected by donor, Walter William Skeat, M.A., of Christ’s College, District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor in the years 1896 and 1897. Donated to the Museum in 1899

Event Date 1896
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Museum of General and Local Archaeology and of Ethnology Fourteenth Annual Report (1899: 26, Appendix II, No. 714). 'A house prepared for a wedding-ceremony. It shows the formally arranged wedding pillows (see Nos. 225—261), the curtain with the clothes rod (see No. 215) and a decorated punan, rice-vessel. The bride and bridegroom are shown seated side by side on the dais.'
Event Date 1899
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
No Number 73: Model of a building.
Event Date 25/7/2001
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Part of the collection noted as Skeat I and originally donated in 1899. The collections was only accessioned in the 1980s (?1985-6) when objects were given Z numbers.
Event Date 6/7/2022
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5833 | Remedial
Event Date 14/12/2023
Author: Ayesha Fuentes

Description (Physical description)
Board with vessels, part of a model of a house prepared for a wedding ceremony [Z 33811 A-E]. Rectangular wooden board covered with lined paper and bordered with green; adhered to the paper are two turned wooden vases, one with flowers made from cane and paper; one circular dish with scalloped edge and a smaller dish attached inside; two additional small wooden vessels and a conical lid of multidirectional woven plant material sit on the dish; one turned wooden vessel with red paper lid decorated with green papercut designs and a small strip of red fabric; one rectangular vessel lined with red fabric and decorated with pendants and silvered papercut designs with tassels of metal beads and red and purple wool; two finials slot into this vessel and are decorated with gilded papercut designs, with a concertina of green paper stretched between them. Board sits in front of dais inside the house.
Event Date 15/3/2024
Author: Katrina Dring