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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Arms and Armaments

191. Photo 1184/2(213)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1184/2(213)
Title:
A Levy. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of a Pathan levy, armed with a sword and a small shield. Possibly a member of the Dir Levies.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

192. Photo 1188(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(46)
Title:
Looking down the Pei-ho River toward North Fort and bay, from Northwest Fort, Taku, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Pei-ho River in the far distance. Bastions of the Northwest Fort with a breech-loading rifle are in the foreground. A British Marine, in a white uniform, stands to the right holding a Lee-Mitford rifle at his side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

193. Photo 1188(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(56)
Title:
Destructive guns from H.M.S. Terrible and distant burning city fired by their shells—bombardment of Tientsin, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

194. Photo 1192(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(29)
Title:
A Burmese villager. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, undivided back. Full-length studio portrait of a Burmese man posed in the act of drawing his bow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

195. Photo 1192(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(111)
Title:
Shan dacoit. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, divided back. Full-length portrait of a Shan man, standing beside a tree and holding a rifle and dagger.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

196. Photo 1192(154)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(154)
Title:
Tribes of Burma—Lwelon men. Publisher: American Mission Press, Rangoon
Scope & Content:
Monochrome postcard, divided back. Full-length standing portrait of two men, posed in front of a group of houses raised on stilts. The man on the right holds a crossbow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

197. Photo 1202/4(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1202/4(19)
Title:
Corporal Tamba of Fenbudu. A hunter and 'Looking Grown Man' with his flintlock. Probably killed trying to protect Kainkordu from rebel forces during the civil war. Photographer: Michael Katakis
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait, standing in the roadway in front of the verandah of a house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1986
Extent:
1 item

198. Photo 1202/4(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1202/4(20)
Title:
Corporal Tamba. Photographer: Michael Katakis
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length standing portrait, holding a flintlock. Photograph taken on the same occasion as print 19.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1986
Extent:
1 item

199. Photo 1224/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(7)
Title:
Gibraltar. One of the batteries. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking towards the harbour, with the line of cannons of the battery in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1877
Extent:
1 item

200. Photo 1224/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(8)
Title:
Fort Manoel, Malta [visited October 5th 1877]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '1409' and titled in the negative. View looking down onto Fort Manoel and across Marsamxett Harbour and Sliema Creek from the ramparts of Valletta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1877
Extent:
1 item