Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
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- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- audio visual recording on VHS video tape
- Catalogue Number
- WoP.25.01
- Description
- Walking the Mountain feeds hungry ghosts of those who came before. Specifically honoured in this work are the spirits of the Chinese pioneers, the railway workers of the late 1800's, the miners at the turn-of-the-century, the sojourner Hoy Ming Wong, 1896 - 1978 and the suicides of Kenneth Fletcher…
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- Title
- Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- audio visual recording on VHS video tape
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- Walking the Mountain feeds hungry ghosts of those who came before. Specifically honoured in this work are the spirits of the Chinese pioneers, the railway workers of the late 1800's, the miners at the turn-of-the-century, the sojourner Hoy Ming Wong, 1896 - 1978 and the suicides of Kenneth Fletcher, 1954 - 1978 and Paul Speed, 1967 - 1991. These people are brought together through death and the communal act of remembering. Paul Wong, Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
- Credit
- Purchased from Video Out, Vancouver, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- WoP.25.01
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