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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 88/1

21. Photo 88/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(21)
Title:
Elephant at work [Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Showing an elephant shifting a baulk of timber in a teak yard, the mahout seated on the animal's back.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 88/1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(22)
Title:
Elephant at work [Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Elephant lifting a baulk of teak in a Rangoon timber yard, with a second elephant in background. The animal's mahout is seated on his back.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 88/1(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(23)
Title:
Elephants at timber yard [Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Group of five elephants with mahouts.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 88/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(24)
Title:
Stern of Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 88/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(25)
Title:
Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 88/1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(26)
Title:
Burmese racing boats [?Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Showing two racing canes, with spectators watching from a grandstand on the bank.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 88/1(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(27)
Title:
[Ceremonial barge, ?Inle Lake.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 88/1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(28)
Title:
[King Thibaw's state barge moored on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 88/1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(29)
Title:
Mandalay. Maha Lawka Maya Zain Pagoda [Kuthodaw Pagoda]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 88/1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(30)
Title:
King Thibaw's Kyaung, Manadalay. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the highly decorated kyaung or monastery in which King Thibaw was educated.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item