Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
[Wayang Topeng group, Batavia (Jakarta)]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '51' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio group of musicians, with two performers, a man and a women, standing facing each other in front. The man is masked. The photograph is also reproduced in Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photogr...
[Wayang dancers, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '45' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of four female wayang dancers, two seated and two standing in a pose from the dance, positioned before a wood-framed screen in front of a house,
Mameet. Taline Lady. Daughter of the Native Magistrate of Prome.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Mameet. Taline Lady. Daughter of the Native Magistrate of Prome.’ THESE young Ladies were daughters of the Tseekay, or native Magistrate, of Prome, and are believed to he very characteristic of the gentler looking and prettier race of the Talines, or Peguers. They were exceedingly fair, and ...
Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.’ THESE women, who were small made, and very plain, are of the semi-wild race of people known as ‘Khyens’, inhabiting a portion of the Aracan hills. (See Report page 283.) The faces of these poor women were tattooed over their whole surface; a barbar...
‘Khien Woman.’ THESE women, who were small made, and very plain, are of the semi-wild race of people known as ‘Khyens’, inhabiting a portion of the Aracan hills. (See Report page 283.) The faces of these poor women were tattooed over their whole surface; a barbarism which is said to have had fo...
‘Moung Toh. Khien.’ BELIEVED to be the husband of one of the Khyen women already noticed, and far better looking than either. The character of the face strongly approximates to the Shan physiognomy.
Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.’ MYOKE, or under Magistrate, of Thyetmew, the British frontier station. He is said to have commanded a considerable body of the Burmese against us at the taking of Rangoon, and according to his own history of the event, to have been the last to quit the...
Moung Yué. Myoke of Meerday.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
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‘Moung Yué. Myoke of Meerday.’ MYOKE of the frontier station depot of Meaday. This old man bears the soubriquet of ‘‘the British Lion’,’ from some resemblance which it is fancied he bears to the well known and honoured Heraldic King of Quadrupeds. He joined the British at commencement of the w...
