Trunk

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Title

Trunk

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Chinese settler Wong Tow carried his possessions in two black lacquer trunks when he immigrated to New Zealand around 1900. This one still has its original carrying ropes and hessian wrapping. Wong Tow was born in Sunwai village in Canton (Guangzhou) about 1884 and probably emigrated around 1900. Like the majority of Chinese arriving in New Zealand, he came from south China. Most Chinese first arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s to work the Otago goldfields in the South Island. They came to ...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1900

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/212192

Related subjects

wood / lacquer / burlap / metal / rope / luggage / China / Bing Wong

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