Okay...here's
more about my Baba and Nyonya ancestry...hope you like it.
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These aren't my ancestors but
they could easily have been...this picture is from a slightly later period
than the one in the first Babas & Nyonyas page because the man is wearing
a suit and bow tie though the ladies are still in the old-fashioned version
of the "pua-t'tng-teh" as the ladies dress is called.
It comprises a three-quarter length buttonless blouse over a sarung. Baba ladies kept their blouses closed with a 3-piece ensemble of linked brooches called a kerongsang.
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These modern Nyonya ladies are
wearing the modern version of the "pua-t'ng-teh" It is very gauzy
with heavy colourful handstitched embroidery down the collars, lapels and
sleeves.
It is still worn over a heavily
patterned cotton sarung and still held together with a kerongsang
set though.
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These two girls in "pua-t'ng'teh"
are wearing their hair in the Butterfly Buns-style. Only unmarried ladies
used this particular style with tiny white jasmine flowers ringing the
buns on either side of the head, traditionally.
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Here are some of the Baba and
Nyonya stuff that have become collectors' items over the years...
(from left) betelnut basket, porcelain dinner plate with phoenix pattern and a similar side dish while a pair of beaded slippers are featured in front. |
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