Views in the Southern Shan States. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Green cloth-covered album measuring 182x140mm, stamped 'Photographs' in gilt on front cover and with handwritten title ' Some Views in the Southern Shan States,' on front fixed endpaper, containing 48 snapshot views. The only dated photograph is print 1, which shows an informal group of Burmese...
Genre: Portrait Photography Informal portrait group, with the Sawbwa of Lawksawk seated on the left, with two unidentified Europeans. See note at print 2. Somewhat faded. [130x80mm]. Subjects = Burmese rulers; sawbwas (Shan rulers) Location = Burma; Lawksawk; Myanmar; Shan
Sawbwa of Lawksawk and some of his family. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group with the Sawbwa of Lawsawk, two wives and a child, seated in front of decorative hangings. The Sawbwa is Hkun Hsuk (b. 1863). The youth is probably his son Hkun Hsa (b. 1895). [142x83mm]. Subjects = Burmese rulers; sawbwas (Shan rulers) Location =...
Procession into Lawksawk town. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two Europeans (presumably the figures seen in print 1) riding on horseback accompanied by a Shan retinue holding umbrellas. [Printing-out paper, 140x82mm]. Subjects = processions Location = Burma; Lawksawk; Myanmar; Shan
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a group of thatched bungalows. [132x80mm]. Subjects = bungalows; camps Location = Burma; Myanmar; Nam Lang (river); Shan