Image size: 5.1 x 4.0 cm
This photograph shows a Chinese Peranakan bride entering a house. She is dressed in traditional Chinese Peranakan wedding attire and is guided by a Sang Khek Umm, standing to her left.This photograph is part of a series of 74 photographs documenting a Peranakan wedding held in Penang in 1951. Peranakans commissioned photographs to document their families and important life events such as marriages and deaths. They also commissioned photographs to record their involvement in business enterprises, and in social causes such as schools and academic societies, religious groups, and in community and cultural associations. With improvements in camera technology, it became possible to take photographs without the assistance of a studio in the first decades of the 20th century.
