Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length studio portrait of the woman seen in print 38, holding a long cheroot. Photograph credited to Beato on basis of studio backdrop, which occurs in several of his photographs. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); Elgin Collection; ethnic groups; rites ...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Family group posed against entrance stairway to a temple. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); Elgin Collection; ethnic groups
Sawbwa's wife and child [Wuntho, Burma]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait taken in front of a house at Wuntho, showing the Wuntho Sawbwa's wife and child seated on the ground with food baskets. Attendants are ranged round the pair in a semi-circle and two servants hold umbrellas over the group. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic g...
Village buffalo cart [Burma]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Cart with wooden wheels and characteristic upwards-tapering sides and a prow-like wooden section on which the yoke is supported.. Subjects = buffalo carts; Elgin Collection; road transport; rural life; transport
Genre: Architectural Photography Presumably the 'new Chinese joss-house, which has lately been completed, though part of it has been in existence for some fifty years', visited by Lord Elgin on 29 November 1898 and mentioned in the accompanying newspaper cutting. Subjects = Chinese architectu...
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along the river at an unidentified location. Subjects = Elgin Collection; river scenes Location = Burma; Irrawaddy (river); Myanmar