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Chinese cemetery monuments
Andrew Jakubowicz.
Funeral ceremonies and annual visits to gravesides were important communal events from the 1850s. Australia's Chinese population was in steady decline from the 1860s but the expansion of cemetery monuments continued up to the 1920s. Many in the metropolitan and regional cities and towns survived into the twenty-first century.
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Funeral ceremonies and annual visits to gravesides were important communal events from the 1850s. Australia’s Chinese population was in steady decline from the 1860s but the expansion of cemetery monuments continued up to the 1920s. Many in the metropolitan and regional cities and towns survived into the twenty-first century.
State Library of Victoria collections
Chinese ovens in the old Beechworth Cemetery
Accession Number: H23579
photograph : gelatin silver, c. 1914?
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