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Photograph

Title
Ah Moy leg-roping a pig
Description

Chinese man with rope around leg of pig, non-Chinese [?] man stands to left side watching, another figure out of left frame is also present. A woman holding a baby stands in the doorway of the house behind watching. Two buildings a visable and a buggy.

Date
c. 1907
Place
Australia - Tasmania
Interpretive description

The catalogue card for this photograph in the Semmens collection at the University of Melbourne Archives states 'unidentified figures, presumably at Creswick'. These two prints have been cropped slightly differently. Photograph dated and identified by Ah Moy's grandson, Norman Moy.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Chinaman leg-roping a hog
    Type
    Print
    Form
    No date, 10.5 x 14 cm.
    Control
    102/535
    Source

    E.J. Semmens collection, 76/33, 76/42, 77/42; University of Melbourne Archives. Details

  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Ah Moy
    Description

    Ah Moy leading a pig to be cooked in one of the stone pig ovens still scattered around the locality.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.43
    Source

    Rootes, Trevor, 'Miners of the North-East', 40 [Degrees] South: Tasmania and Beyond, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 42-43. Details

    According to article text original photograph is held in a local Weldborough hotel.

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Created: 21 May 2004, Last modified: 8 June 2009