- Title
- Chinese-style wedding proceding past 'Tree of Knowledge' banyan tree
- Date
- 1931
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Versions
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- Date
- 1931
- Type
- Form
- Annotation on back of print: 'True Chinese wedding - Darwin. Bride wears pink slcks [sic] with red veil as there is already a wife in China - otherwise she would wear red. She comes with her veiled women to the din of crackers to cross a burning fire into bridegroom's house. Before her have gone four "match makers' and behind her furniture + house hold goods are carried on litters. Darwin 1931', 'See Tree of Knowledge Cavenagh St'
- Control
- 18/1632 (box 31)
- Source
Papers of Ernestine Hill, UQFL18; University of Queensland library - Fryer Library. Details
Related Subjects
People
See also
- Darwin (Northern Territory)
- Darwin's Chinatown - Cavenagh Street area (Northern Territory)
- Northern Territory
- processions
- weddings
Related Images
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- Title
- Chinese-style wedding in Cavenagh Street
- Note
- It is possible these are both photographs of the same wedding.
- Details
Created: 24 January 2007
