Title
Studio portrait of peranakan couple and girl
Year/Period
1930s
Region
Straits Settlements or Indonesia
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 23.0 x 15.6 x 0.2 cm,
Image size: 14.0 x 9.8 cm
Image size: 14.0 x 9.8 cm
Accession No.
2015-00685
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This studio portrait shows a Peranakan man in suit and woman in sarong kebaya with a girl in the middle. 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.
