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Request for help to identify Chinese dragon boat artefact found in NSW

Submitted by Donald Kerr on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 15:24

Dear list members

I am writing to ask for your help to identify a Chinese artefact that was found at the port of Merimbula in southern NSW during my thesis on the coastal shipping industry, which may have been brought from Hong Kong by immigrants to Australia in the 19th century during the gold rushes.

Identification of the large ceramic artefact, found by divers at the Merimbula Wharf site during my MA research, would help me research Chinese immigrant culture in southern NSW in the second half of the 19th Century and first half of the 20th century.