Dish, Chinese

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0126.0005.F
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• 1875

A white dish with raised base and Chinese fruit and flower design. On the bottom of the dish there is an orange/red, square trade mark. PH1 2006, PH2 2007

Chinese funeral procession in Barkerville; circa 1900.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0126.0030.E
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Street scene, Barkerville. Chinese funeral procession. Winter.

Performing rituals at a Chinese funeral in Barkerville; circa 1900.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0126.0030.G
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Street scene, Barkerville. Chinese funeral festivities. Circa 1900.

Chinese funeral in Barkerville; circa 1900.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0126.0030.I
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Street scene, Barkerville. Chinese funeral festivities. Circa 1900.

Miners at La Fontaine Claim, Lightning Creek; circa 1908. Note the four Chinese men.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0126.0033
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A group of 26 unidentified men at the La Fontain Mine, Lightning Creek. Four appear to be Chinese, some sitting and some standing outside a building, most appear to wearing work clothes. Two of the Chinese men appear to be cooks as they are wearin...

Murchie, Archibald

Harp, hand

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0142.0002
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A Chinese hand harp. The wooden component is roughly rectangular in shape, but the four corners have been flaired. There are seven of the original eight metal keys still attached to the instrument. The keys have been attached by a narrow band of s...

Scale, gold

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1961.0142.0003
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Chinese gold scale case 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches made of wood with chinese symbol. Hole in top for string, this outlined in brass. PH1 2006 A Chinese steelyard scale (do'tchin) consisting of a bone or ivory scale rod with a brass pan and weight (...

Yoke

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1963.0071.0003
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Split bamboo carrying pole. Goods were fastened to each end of the polea and it was balanced on shoulders for carrying. PH1 2006, PH2 2007

Box, match

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1966.0031.0032.3
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A rectangular cardboard match box. Wrapped in a paper label, one side has a yellow background with a green and red dragon up either side and in the centre red chinese chacaters. Opposite side is light brown with black chinese characters written. O...

Box, match

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1966.0031.0033.12
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Rectangular tin bottom of a match box. Wrapped in white paper, dirty and discoloured from age. On base in raised print are chinese characters and also in black ink. PH3 2008

Unidentified Chinese men at Chung Lee's bathhouse and laundry; one is carrying water. Flood water rushes past the front of St. Saviour's Anglican Church; April 1899.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1966.0068.0001.013
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Unidentified man heading to Lee Chong's bath house and laundry. Front of St. Saviour's Church, April 1899.

This large water flume (seen in the distance) was built by Wong Ying Fook in the 1870s and crossed Devil's Canyon to carry water to a Slough Creek mine. It was approximately 90 meters wide and 16 meters tall and stood until 1920. This photograph was taken in 1899.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1966.0068.0001.040
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Inscription on bottom of photograph: "Chinese miner's flume across the Cariboo Road in the Devil's Canyon".

The clean-up (sorting the gold from the debris) at the Alabama Claim on Mosquito Creek with two unidentified Chinese men, Hobart Flynn, Mr. Washburn and Jim Robinson; 1899.

• CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1966.0068.0001.055
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Group photo, cleaning up on the Alabama. Inscription on bottom of photograph: "Cleaning up on the Alabama '99. Two Chinese men, Hobart Flynn, Mr. Washburn, Jim Robinson (from left to right)".