Stern of Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Showing the Burmese tillerman seated in the richly decorated (in foliate design) steering chair in the raised stern of an Irrawaddy paddy boat or laung-zat.
Shrine S.D. [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of one of the shrines on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda platform, showing richly carved wooden decoration. For a closer view of the same shrine, see print 10.
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a shrine on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, showing intricately carved decoration in teak, and pillars covered in glass mosaic. A small group of Shans is posed in front of the shrine. Reproduced as plate 4 in Harry L. Tilly, 'Glass Mosaics...
Genre: Architectural Photography Detail of an intricately carved teak screen framing the entrance to a shrine in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. The piece incorporates nats engaged in various activities within a design of vines. Reproduced as plate 15 in Harry L. Tilly, 'Wood-carving of Burma' (Rangoon,...