Title
Untitled
Year/Period
around 1920s
Region
Penang
Material
Dimension
Object size: 16.5 x 12.0 x 0.2 cm
Accession No.
2015-01947
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
A glass plate showing a studio portrait of a nyonya in baju panjang holding a handkerchief. 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.
