"Burning Towers", Beechworth, 1995 [picture] / William Yang
- Bib ID:
- 436438
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Yang, William, 1943-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1995
- 1 photograph : b&w ; image 36.8 x 48.1 cm., on sheet 50.8 x 60.6 cm.
- Series:
- Australian Chinese.
- Biography/History:
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There are about 2,000 Chinese buried in Beechworh Cemetery, Victoria and their graves and the Burning Towers form a large section of the cemetery. The Burning Towers, built in 1857, were used for burning paper prayers and meals for the dead.
- Notes:
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- Condition: Good.
- Part of the collection of photographs of the Chinese community living in Australia by William Yang.
- Photographer's stamp on photograph.
- Photograph signed by artist.
- "3/10"--Inscription below title.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146600898
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1995
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