Description
This pen-and-wash sketch dated 9 December 1870 depicts four Chinese men and a dog on the way to the gold fields at Ravenswood in northern Queensland. Made by Donald Sydney Thistlethwayte it is titled ''Celestials' on the way to Ravenswood diggings'. The men are dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. One wears sandals and two others are barefoot. Three of the men carry objects, including woven baskets, a shovel and bags, on poles over their shoulders as they walk. The fourth holds a staff as he waits for the others on a lower section of the path.
Acknowledgements
| Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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| Creator | Donald Sydney Thistlethwayte, artist, 1870 |
| Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number 6158/2
TLF resource R9204 |
| Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |
