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    Chinese with buffalo, c. 1919 - , by Brown, Percy, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.

Title
Unidentified man with two buffalo team
Description

Unidentified man standing in front of two buffalo team hitched to an open empty cart.

Date
c. 1919 -
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?
Interpretive description

Date based on dates provided for the Brown collection.

External Url
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/13191

Versions

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    Title
    Chinese with buffalo
    Description

    A Chinese man with his buffalo team: two buffalo hitched to an open cart. He used to haul wood from Darwin wharf along a track (Gardens Road) to Vesteys Meatworks at Bullocky Point.

    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    Black and white postcard. Handwritten caption on back: 'A local Chinaman and his buffalo team. They are like large bullocks except for horns. Go very slow. He uses them for hauling wood mostly'.
    Creator
    Brown, Percy
    Control
    13\13114, PH0155/0140
    Source

    Percy Brown collection, c. 1919 - , 0155; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    A Chinese using Indian Buffaloes, sold in 1884 after a ghee-making experiment in Palmerston, to haul his dray.
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    between pp.210-211
    Source

    Rolls, Eric, Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea; Continuing the Epic Story of China's Centuries-old Relationship with Australia, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1996. Details

    State Library of the Northern Territory

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Created: 26 August 2004, Last modified: 8 June 2009