Photography Chinese boy on a donkey
Photography Chinese boy on a donkey
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A black-and-white photograph showing a boy riding a donkey along a paved path. The barefoot boy is holding a wooden stick. The donkey carries a wicker side pannier on its back.
The photograph is the 42nd of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr. purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Chinesejunge am Esel. (DZ)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 6.8 cm, width: 8.1 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: bluish discolouration of black colour, trimmed on all sides
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