On back: "Take at 39 Field (?)/ K/L/ 26/4/58"

Title
On back: "Take at 39 Field (?)/ K/L/ 26/4/58"
Year/Period
1958
Region
Kualar Lumpur, British Malaya
Material
Dimension
Object size: 8.6 x 13.3 cm
Accession No.
2015-01140
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee

This photograph shows a group of men wearing songkok and sarong dancing and a man playing saxophone. 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.