Accession No

Z 33811 C


Description

Wooden ornament, possibly a tree, part of a model of a house prepared for a wedding ceremony [Z 33811 A-E]. Three segmented domes with star-shaped base, stacked in decreasing sizes on a vertical post; fringe of red paper adhered to edge of top dome; leaf ornaments made from cane and paper in red green and black, inserted into holes in the base dome. Many leaf ornaments missing.


Place

Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Peninsular Malaysia


Period


Source

Skeat, Walter William [collector and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

Z 33811 C; MAA: TEMP.00605; No number 73; UNID 137361; I.714 [Skeat Coll.]; 18B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Plant; Fibre; Wood; Cane; Paper; Metal


Local Term


Measurements


Events

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)
Wooden ornament, possibly a tree, part of a model of a house prepared for a wedding ceremony [Z 33811 A-E]. Three segmented domes with star-shaped base, stacked in decreasing sizes on a vertical post; fringe of red paper adhered to edge of top dome; leaf ornaments made from cane and paper in red green and black, inserted into holes in the base dome. Many leaf ornaments missing.
Event Date 15/3/2024
Author: Katrina Dring


FM:310689

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