A Kathé or Munnipoore Horseman.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘A Kathé or Munnipoore Horseman.’ IF the Infantry of the Burmese army disappointed expectation, the mounted portion yet more. Even the far famed Poney of the country seemed, in the general mass, to be degenerate; for although there were many beautifully formed, powerful, and spirited, very many...
Three Burmese Infantry Soldiers.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Three Burmese Infantry Soldiers.’ THE three men here represented, who are pure Burmese, were picked out of the guard of six hundred attached to the Residency, and may be received as characteristic of the whole body. Vigorous and powerfully formed men, and, as is well known, very far from wanti...
Maphoon, The Hirsute faced Woman of Ava, and her child.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Maphoon, The Hirsute faced Woman of Ava, and her child.’ THIS extraordinary object is fully described in the Report, page 110. A Portrait of her as a child, together with that of her father, will be found in Crawfords ‘Embassy’ to Burmah in 1826. Maphoon is now a woman of 31 years of age, and...
Profile of the Hirsute faced Woman of Ava.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Profile of the Hirsute faced Woman of Ava.’ THE PROFILE of Maphoon had little or nothing to mitigate the original impression. The hair of the face, hiding the features and uniting with that of the ordinary mass on the head, seemed to form one hirsute block.
Moung, Share Moung. An Albino, age 70.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Moung, Share Moung. An Albino, age 70.’ AN ‘Albino’, aged 70. The father of this man, as the physiognomy strongly indicates, was a Mohummudan, a native of India; his mother, a Burmese.
Pho-men. An Albino, age 17.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Pho-men. An Albino, age 17.’ AN ‘Albino’, aged 17, whose European-like skin, rendered pink where affected by the sun, very light brown or sandy coloured hair, light eyes, incongruous dress, and coarse mouth, produced a painful impression on English minds. The parents of this lad are both Tal...
Moung Pho; Taline Clerk to Commissioner.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Moung Pho; Taline Clerk to Commissioner.’ Native Clerk to Commissioner. The smoothness of contour, superiority of feature, and greater softness or gentleness of expression exhibited in this face, than in the bulk of the Burmans, strictly so called, are characteristic of the Talines, or Peguers...
Moung-Looglè. Nephew to the Woondouk.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Moung-Looglè. Nephew to the Woondouk.’ This little lad is nephew to the Woondouk (Plate 88.) and possesses the strongly marked features of his family; but is by no means characteristic of the Burman ‘aristocracy,’ or better classes. The young Princes, children to the King, who is himself a ve...
Rough Sketch of Kathé Boatmen, en route to Mengoon.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Rough Sketch of Kathé Boatmen, en route to Mengoon.’ ATTACHED to one of the war boats placed at command of the Envoy on occasion of the visit of the mission to Mengoon. These men are of the conquered and captured race of Munniipooreans, described in the ‘Report’ as in a manner occupying in Bu...
Thomas Spears Esq.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Thomas Spears Esq.’ THE only British merchant and resident at Umeerapoora; to whom the members of the mission were indebted for many valuable and friendly attentions. Mr. Spears has resided in Umeerapoora about eighteen years. He was a sufferer by the rebellion of 1852, and during nine months ...
