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    Chinese funeral - Cooktown, c. 1890, courtesy of Royal Geographical Society.

Title
Procession in Cooktown
Date
1887 - 1890
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cooktown
External Url
http://images.rgs.org/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=15394

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    Title
    Chinese funeral - Cooktown
    Date
    c. 1890
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    This photograph is part of an album of prints collected by Lord Brassey during the 'Sunbeam' voyage.
    Control
    S0010552
    Source

    Album of prints collected by Lord Brassey during the 'Sunbeam' voyage; Royal Geographical Society. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by Royal Geographical Society
  2. Published photograph
    Description

    'Via the internet, versions of this image can be obtained from different sources. Recently some debate about its subject matter has arisen. The Royal Geographical Society, London, (2009) describes a similar photograph as depicting a Chinese funeral at Cooktown, 1890. The image is known to be part of an album of prints collected by Lord Brassey. Brassey and his wife, Annie Allnutt, called at Cooktown on board the 'Sunbeam' on 15 August 1887. After a detailed examination of the print, John & Bev Shay (Cooktown & District Historical Society) and Kevin Wong Hoy separately interpret it to be of a parade of Cooktown's Chinese in procession with Chinese dignitaries riding in the horse drawn carrirage. If the photograph were taken in 1887, then, possibly it records the visit of the Chinese commissioners to Cooktown in early August 1887, just prior to their return to China, after having completed their investigation of the circumstances faced by Chinese in Australia'.

    Date
    1887
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    Front cover
    Source

    Wong Hoy, Kevin and Rains, Kevin (eds), Rediscovered Past: China in Northern Australia, Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia, Northern Melbourne, 2009. Details

  3. Published photograph
    Date
    1890
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Published black and white photograph
    Creator
    Brassy, Lord
    Control
    pp.126-127
    Source

    Moore, David & Hall, Rodney, Australia: Image of a Nation 1850-1950, Collins, Sydney, 1983. Details

    Royal Geographical Society, London

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Created: 21 May 2004, Last modified: 7 August 2009