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A Party Of Chinese Miners At Muddy Creek (Garvie's), Waikaia
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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-48TitleA Party Of Chinese Miners At Muddy Creek (Garvie's), WaikaiaDescriptionCasual photo of five Chinese miners (one seated), outside a large mud-brick building (likely someone's home), at Muddy Creek, Waikaia. Chinese characters are written below the image and are the names of the men pictured.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 2", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1995. Image on page 163.
Caption from book: "A party of Chinese miners at Muddy Creek (Garvie's), Waikaia. From left: Law Shun Fay, Lai Sun, Law Kee (seated), Tsou Chi Young, and Lai Huk. Note the weheelbarrow and the sod walls. [Don, 1900-01 tour, Kirkland Collection]"
Duplicate NG1-11.28-62TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupGold Mining-Central Otago-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-48TitleA Party Of Chinese Miners At Muddy Creek (Garvie's), WaikaiaDescriptionCasual photo of five Chinese miners (one seated), outside a large mud-brick building (likely someone's home), at Muddy Creek, Waikaia. Chinese characters are written below the image and are the names of the men pictured.Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 2", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1995. Image on page 163.
Caption from book: "A party of Chinese miners at Muddy Creek (Garvie's), Waikaia. From left: Law Shun Fay, Lai Sun, Law Kee (seated), Tsou Chi Young, and Lai Huk. Note the weheelbarrow and the sod walls. [Don, 1900-01 tour, Kirkland Collection]"
Duplicate NG1-11.28-62
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupGold Mining-Central Otago-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Don, Alexander Rev, A Party Of Chinese Miners At Muddy Creek (Garvie's), Waikaia. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127558
