Photo, Print, Drawing Chinese Children at the Tjap-Gomeh Festival in Makassar. Chinese kinderen op het Tjap-Gomehfeest te Makassar
About this Item
Title
- Chinese Children at the Tjap-Gomeh Festival in Makassar.
Other Title
- Chinese kinderen op het Tjap-Gomehfeest te Makassar
Summary
- This photograph shows Chinese children participating in the Tjap Go Meh Festival in Makassar, the largest city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Tjap Go Meh, which takes place 15 days after Chinese New Year, was widely celebrated among Chinese immigrants in Indonesia, and became popular with the local population as well. Also known as the Lantern Festival, it involves parades and performances similar to those on the new year. The picture was taken by the studio of British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page, who arrived in the Dutch East Indies from Australia in 1857 and opened a studio in Batavia (present-day Jakarta). The firm of Woodbury & Page went on to specialize in portraits, ethnographic images, and photographs of life in the Dutch East Indies. The photograph is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.
Names
- Page, James Photographer.
- Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley), 1834-1885 Photographer.
Created / Published
- Batavia : Woodbury & Page, 1880.
Headings
- - Indonesia--Sulawesi Selatan--Makassar
- - 1880
- - Celebrations
- - Children
- - Clothing and dress
- - Costumes
- - Festivals
- - Wagons
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 17 x 22.5 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies KITLV.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669838
Online Format
- compressed data
- image