Title
On back: "Singapore Peranakan Wedding"
Year/Period
20th Century
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 9.0 x 12.1 cm
Accession No.
2015-00847
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This photograph shows a Peranakan bride and groom in traditional wedding clothes with two page girls and a page boy beside them. On back reads “Singapore Peranakan Wedding”. This large group of photographs provides 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.
