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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 15

331. Photo 15/6(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(46)
Title:
Sawbwa's wife and child [Wuntho, Burma]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait taken in front of a house at Wuntho, showing the Wuntho Sawbwa's wife and child seated on the ground with food baskets. Attendants are ranged round the pair in a semi-circle and two servants hold umbrellas over the group. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 item

332. Photo 15/6(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(47)
Title:
Village buffalo cart [Burma]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Cart with wooden wheels and characteristic upwards-tapering sides and a prow-like wooden section on which the yoke is supported.. Subjects = buffalo carts; Elgin Collection; road transport; rural life; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

333. Photo 15/6(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(48)
Title:
[Chinese temple, Bhamo.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Presumably the 'new Chinese joss-house, which has lately been completed, though part of it has been in existence for some fifty years', visited by Lord Elgin on 29 November 1898 and mentioned in the accompanying newspaper cutting. Subjects = Chinese architectu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

334. Photo 15/6(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(49)
Title:
[Carvings on the Chinese temple at Bhamo.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up of wood carvings. Subjects = arts & crafts; Elgin Collection; woodcarving Location = Bhamo; Burma; Kachin; Myanmar
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

335. Photo 15/6(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(50)
Title:
The Irrawaddy River. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along the river at an unidentified location. Subjects = Elgin Collection; river scenes Location = Burma; Irrawaddy (river); Myanmar
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

336. Photo 15/6(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(51)
Title:
The second defile on the Irrawaddy River. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Duplicate at Photo 88 (65). Subjects = Elgin Collection; river scenes Location = Burma; Irrawaddy (river); Myanmar
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

337. Photo 15/6(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(52)
Title:
[Village scene, Burma]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along an unidentified village street. Subjects = Elgin Collection; rural life; street scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

338. Photo 15/6(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(53)
Title:
Burmese village poay. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Musicians and dancers posed in a clearing. Subjects = dance; Elgin Collection; musicians; pwes (Burmese dance performance)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

339. Photo 15/6(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(54)
Title:
[Fortified village and stockade.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Looking along a palisade towards a group of soldiers gathered at the gateway to the unidentified village. The palisade has an additional defensive perimeter of sharp wooden stakes. Photograph presumably taken during one of the pacification campaigns following the Third ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 item

340. Photo 15/6(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/6(55)
Title:
[Loading harvested pineapples onto carts, Burma.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Subjects = agriculture; Elgin Collection; pineapples; rural life
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

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