Context (Amendments / updates)
The card queries on the reverse in pencil: 'are these 871?', meaning 'are these items catalogued under Skeat I: 871?' As the Skeat Printed Catalogue I gives precisely the same object description as is given on the card, we may be sure this Skeat I number is definitive.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Plaited leaf strips from a grave.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
This object was collected by Walter William Skeat, District Magistrate of Larut, Perak, in the Kuala Langat District of Selangor, Malaysia, 1896-1897.
Event Date 1897
Author: Lucie Carreau

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 28/10/2024
Author: Lucie Carreau