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Shans making offerings to Buddhist monks. Publisher: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
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Coloured postcard, divided back. Showing the Buddhist monks seated on the verandah of a building, with offerings on the shelves in front of them, and the Shan group seated on mats in the foreground.
Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Phoongyeeh travelling to Rangoon. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
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Portrait of a Buddhist monk seated on the deck of a river steamer of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, en route from Mandalay to Rangoon, surrounded by various possessions and religious objects. Corresponds to Photo 312 (94).
Pagoda Road to Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
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Stereoscopic view; view along the road towards the spire of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in the distance, with a monk posed in the foreground. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.