GROUP
Flags and banners
- Date
- [ca 1920-1952]
- Reference
- Series-6701
- Description
Comprises flags and banners from the Wellington Chee Kung Tong Society.
Title supplied by Library.
Quantity: 25 curio(s).
- Additional description
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - Access to some three-dimensional objects is at the discretion of the Curator and by appointment only. Access may be restricted because of the large size and fragility of some of these items.
- Part of
- Chung, Doris, 1917-2017: Collection relating to the Chee Kung Tong (Chinese Masonic Society) and Chinese in Wellington
- Format
- 25 curio(s), Banners, Flags, Textile art (Visual works)
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Copyright
Unknown
Chinese banner. [ca 1925-1946]
Date: 1925 - 1946
From: Chung, Doris, 1917-2017: Collection relating to the Chee Kung Tong (Chinese Masonic Society) and Chinese in Wellington
Reference: Curios-Chung-90-246-23
Description: Small banner, black Chinese velvet fabric characters stitched onto red cotton cloth with black border, previously belonging to the Wellington Chinese Masonic Society orchestra. Writing translated into English reads `Good luck, happy music'. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Cotton and velvet fabric, thread, 680 x 325 mm
Chinese banner. 1925
Date: 1925
From: Chung, Doris, 1917-2017: Collection relating to the Chee Kung Tong (Chinese Masonic Society) and Chinese in Wellington
Reference: Curios-Chung-90-246-01
Description: Embroidered Chinese characters on a long piece of red coloured silk fabric Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Silk fabric, cotton thread, 915 x 190 mm
Three flags. [ca 1925-1946]
Date: 1925 - 1946
From: Chung, Doris, 1917-2017: Collection relating to the Chee Kung Tong (Chinese Masonic Society) and Chinese in Wellington
Reference: Curios-Chung-90-246-26
Description: Three cotton flags with screen printed design. Flags are attached to wooden sticks using thick metal staples. Kuomintang, Great Britain and Kiangsi Soviet flags [pre Long March Communist base]. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Wood, fabric (cotton), metal (ferrous), thread, paint. Wood length, 915 mm. Flag, 850 x 430 mm