Chinese celebration for the dead, lighting the life sticks, Victoria, B.C.
Creator
Edith Sara Watson
(American, 1861 - 1943)
Date1890s-1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions17.7 x 12.4 cm
Credit LineFrances Rooney Collection. Purchase with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018
Object number2018/3601.31a
LocationNot currently on display
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![Chinese celebration for the dead. Lighting the life sticks. Victoria, B.C. [Page 31 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135340/thumbnail)
![Lighting the "life" sticks in the Chinese cemetery, Victoria, B.C. [page 29 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135342/thumbnail)
![Many strange figures adorn the dress coat of the Coastal Indian Chief. His "speech pole" too is a stick with strange [obalistic?] carvings. Photo taken in the Siwash Indian Reservation, Alert Bay, B.C. [Page 11 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135364/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
![Attractive graves in the Chinese cemetery at Victoria, B.C. [Page 26 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135347/thumbnail)
![[Grave in Chinese cemetery in Victoria BC, page 27 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135346/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
![[Woman gathering sticks from water, page 27 of The Doukhobors I album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134977/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Photograph
![[Man attending to gravestone in Chinese cemetery in Victoria, B.C.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135344/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Print
![Orange on a stick at Hog Is. Nassau [Page 7 of Victoria Hayward album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134923/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1911-1931
Page
![A Japanese fisherman's home in Steveston, B.C., shingled with B.C. cedar [page 33 of Alert Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Victoria, B.C. album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135336/thumbnail)
