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Rangoon: Offering in Chinese temple

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dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Kenneth W.
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialSE Asia (Yangon, Myanmar)
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-18T23:22:28Z
dc.date.available2019-12-18T23:22:28Z
dc.date.updated2019-12-18T23:22:28Z
dc.descriptionDuring the morning Chinese families bring offerings to the temple to be blessed
dc.descriptionsome of the food offerings are for the staff of the temple, and some are to be blessed for the family. Here a woman is seeking blessing for the firecrackers to be used in a celebration. She is facing the large incense pot seen in slide 115, with her back toward the chief shrine seen in slide 116.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumsepia
dc.format.mediumcolour
dc.identifierANUA 682-3699
dc.identifier.otherAR BUD-117
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/196083
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
dc.subjectChinese: Kowloon, Hong Kong, etc
dc.subjectarchitecture
dc.subjectdaily life
dc.subjectslide set
dc.titleRangoon: Offering in Chinese temple
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource: Kenneth W. Morgan, Visual Education Service, The Divinity School, Yale University

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