Yankai Wang "Sweeping the Tombs"
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Memories of Migration
Date: March 21 - June 20 2012; 2012-03-21
Material: Digital color photograph Dimension:
4 x 6 inches; 600.0 ppi
Creator: Yankai Wang
Identifier: aql:21438 qmp-yw-000024 qmp-yw-000024.tif
Description: Yankai Wang is "sweeping the tombs" at his ancestral grave. He is also burning "spirit money" because the Chinese believe that their ancestors still require currency in their afterlife.
Creator :
Yankai Wang
Date :
March 21 - June 20 2012; 2012-03-21
Summary/Description :
Yankai Wang is "sweeping the tombs" at his ancestral grave. He is also burning "spirit money" because the Chinese believe that their ancestors still require currency in their afterlife.
Subject :
Cemeteries; Ancestor worship; Wang, Yankai
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Suzhou, China Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) China
Type :
Digital image
Format :
Digital color photograph; 4 x 6 inches; 600.0 ppi
Identifier :
aql:21438 qmp-yw-000024 qmp-yw-000024.tif
Subject:
Cemeteries; Ancestor worship; Wang, Yankai
Cemeteries; Ancestor worship; Wang, Yankai
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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