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Photograph

Title
Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left
Description

Chinese characters can be read on either side of the door and just made out above the door. The temple has two gabled sections with a flat section inbetween. Simple curled decorations are present on the tips of the gables. Entrance is in one of the gabled buildings. You would walk through to the flat section from here and then through to the second gabled building.

Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Interpretive description

Dates based on Rev. Frederick Greenwood residence in Darwin 1901-1904.

Versions

  1. Negative
    Title
    Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left
    Date
    1901 - 1904
    Type
    Negative
    Form
    1 b&w glass negative.
    Control
    38, no. 148 in returned album
    Source

    Collection of photographs of the Northern Territory (Greenwood/Gillstrom), c. 1901 - c. 1904, PIC P870/72 LOC Row 52/5; Greenwood, Rev Fred; National Library of Australia - Picture collection. Details

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