Image: ChineseKayTribeStonecutters-Singapore
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Description: A sketch entitled "Chinese Stone Cutters in Pulau Ubin", showing Chinese stonecutters from the "Kay tribe" (that is, of Hakka origin) at work on Pulau Ubin, an island off the northeast coast of Singapore, cutting blocks of stone for the construction of Horsburgh Lighthouse on another island, Pedra Branca.
Title: ChineseKayTribeStonecutters-Singapore
Credit: John Hall-Jones & Christopher Hooi (1979). An Early Surveyor in Singapore: John Turnbull Thomson in Singapore, 1841–1853. Singapore: National Museum, plate 39. ISBN 9971917009.
Author: John Turnbull Thomson (1821–1884)
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