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.
Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Paddy boat or laung-zat moored on the Irrawaddy, probably at Rangoon. The boats bipod mast is lowered and the crew are posed with oars as if in the act of rowing the vessel.
[Ceremonial barge, ?Inle Lake.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Covered barge with tiered roofs and figurehead in the form of a bird, possibly used during the Hpaung daw-u Festival on Inle Lake. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
[King Thibaw's state barge moored on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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A double-hulled vessel with twin figureheads in the form of nats. The covered area of the boat is built in the form of a tiered roofed pyatthat. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
Mandalay. Maha Lawka Maya Zain Pagoda [Kuthodaw Pagoda]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from Mandalay Hill looking down onto the central pagoda surrounded by 729 shrines containing inscriptions of the Buddhist canon. Situated to the south-east of the foot of Mandalay Hill, the Royal Work of Merit was erected by Mindon Min in 1859.
Mandalay. The Palace, West Front. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards palace buildings, with field guns lined up in front of the wall. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.