Untitled

Title

Untitled

Year/Period

around 1930s

Region

Java, Surakarta

Material

Paper

Dimension

Object size: 24.2 x 30.5 cm,
Image size: 15.6 x 20.7 cm

Accession No.

2015-00966

Collection of

Peranakan Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

This photograph shows Pakubuwono X (1866–1939), Susuhunan of Surakarta, his consort, and other royal women with a group of Indies Chinese women visiting the kraton (palace). This large group of photographs provide important visual documentation of the fashion, studio photography and lifestyle of Peranakans of the Straits Settlements and Indonesia in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The collection also allows study of different photographic techniques and covers a wide range of themes, including changing fashions (from baju panjang and baju kurong to kebaya and cheongsam), festive celebrations (weddings, funerals, ancestral rites, Chinese New Year), interiors, transportation and children.