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One of several pieces that would have been part of shrine cabinets. It is not yet known which...Read more

This canister was used to hold the chim sticks, or fortune sticks, that were used in divination rituals...Read more

Shipping crate for “superior benzoin incense” from the Macao firm of 陳天祥 “Chan Tin Cheung”. This firm was one...Read more

This bell, bearing the date of 1883–84, is a typical temple bell. It would be struck to call...Read more

Two photographs taken in 1899, which feature many inscriptions on plaques of the 1887 Emmaville temple. LOCATION Britain...Read more

by Gill Oxley Inverell Pioneer Village is located on the southern edge of Inverell at 64 Tingha Road...Read more

A remnant of the packaging of an incense packet from Macao, from the firm 陳聯馨 “Chun Lun Hing”....Read more

This carved panel would have been attached to the side of an altar table. It was one of...Read more

The inscription on this plaque is a list of 155 names. The matching design of this plaque, which...Read more

This mount frame would have been used inside a temple to display a processional placard when the placard...Read more

Originally believed to be from the 1866 Rocky River temple, this table was likely moved to the 1883...Read more

This set of six placards was originally displayed in the 1883 Howell Road temple in Tingha, and may have...Read more

A vase which may have been displayed on an altar table in a temple. It is not known...Read more

Sudhana Kumāra (a.k.a. Sun Chai) is an acolyte of Avalokitasvara (a.k.a. Kwun Yam; the Chinese goddess of mercy)....Read more

Part of the framing from a diorama which would have showed mannequins from a scene in a play,...Read more

This name plaque, which would perhaps have originally been displayed above a front doorway, may come from Tingha’s...Read more

One of several pieces that would have been part of shrine cabinets. It is not yet known which...Read more

This painted screen is one of a set of three such panels (see Panel 2 and Panel 3)....Read more

IMG_6653 Inverell Pioneer Village - Right long couplet board - Paul Macgregor 16.4.21Read more

A Chinese-temple donation inscription that is couched as an address to that temple’s deity or deities, as is...Read more

The base stand from a diorama that would have showed mannequins from a scene in a play, and...Read more

The papers printed on this block would have been the answers to health questions asked of 華佗 Hua...Read more

The drum on this stand would have been struck to call the attention the deity or deities of...Read more

This carved scene would have been inset into the structure of a shrine cabinet. It is not known...Read more

One of several pieces that would have been part of shrine cabinets. It is not yet known which...Read more

The main temple at Tingha, photographed possibly in 1890. Photograph reproduced from Elizabeth Weidemann’s 1981 book World of...Read more

This couplet board is believed to have formed part of a shrine-cabinet surround, as is suggested by the...Read more

This painted screen is one of a set of three such panels (see Panel 1 and Panel 2)....Read more

This entrance adornment—or 彩門 “choy-moon”—is likely the one referenced by the Donation plaque dated 1866, and so would have hung...Read more

This mount frame would have been used inside a temple to display processional staffs inside the temple, when...Read more

Part of the framing from a diorama which would have showed mannequins from a scene in a play,...Read more

It is clear from the metrical structure of the text that it constitutes the first or so-called upper...Read more

One of several pieces that would have been part of shrine cabinets. It is not yet known which...Read more

by Juanita Kwok McCrossins Mill Museum is located in Uralla, the closest town to the historic Rocky River...Read more

There were at least nine different temples in the New England North West region. Local histories state that the...Read more

This stamp belonged to one or both of Tingha’s Chinese Masonic society buildings. The “Yee Hing Society” was...Read more

One of several pieces that would have been part of shrine cabinets. It is not yet known which...Read more