Indonesia: Chinese children at the Tjap-Gomeh Festival in Makassar (Ujung Pandang), Sulawesi

This photograph shows Chinese children participating in the Tjap Go Meh Festival in Makassar, the largest city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Tjap Go Meh, which takes place 15 days after Chinese New Year, was widely celebrated among Chinese immigrants in Indonesia, and became popular with the local population as well. Also known as the Lantern Festival, it involves parades and performances similar to those on the new year. The picture was taken by the studio of British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page, who arrived in the Dutch East Indies from Australia in 1857 and opened a studio in Batavia (present-day Jakarta).

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