Photograph

Title: Dancing group in hula skirts
Description: Chinese women and girls dressed in Hawaiian hulla skirts for a fundraising event for the anti-Japanese war. One of the girls in the photograph (seated) is Norma Hodge (nee Quon). Mabel Wang is in the first person on the left standing. Girl seated third from the right is Jean (Mabel Wang's sister). Probably taken in the rooms of the Chung Hwa Kung Hwei.
Date: c. 1936 - c. 1937
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne

Title
Chinese Dancing Group - Hula Skirts. ca. 1936-37

Description
Chinese women and girls dressed in Hawaiian hulla skirts for a fundraising event for the anti-Japanese war. One of the girls in the photograph (seated) is Norma Quon who is now Norma Hodge (she married one of the decendants of Charles Hodge’s decendants). Mabel Wang is in the first person on the left standing. Probably taken in the rooms of the Chung Hwa Kung Hwei.

Type
Print

Form
photographic copy of an original photograph

Control
P00065

Source
P Series general picture collection, P series; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

Rights
Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum
Type
Print (back)

Source
Daisy Quon collection, DQ; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Type
Negative

Form
Black and white negative of proof sheet which includes this photograph.

Control
DQ009 P00117

Source
Daisy Quon collection, DQ; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Type
Negative

Form
4x5 inch black and white negative

Control
P00065 N45-036

Source
Negative collection (4x5 inch), N45; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

Title: Bai Huah committee of the Chung Wah Society (or Chung Hwa Kung Hwei)
Note: Photographs appear to be taken in the same room. Probably the rooms of the Chung Hwa Kung Hwei.; Details

Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 28 September 2008

Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia