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61. Photo 92/2(61)

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Photo 92/2(61)
Title:
A temporary bridge across a stream: Ko Up, Nam Teng. These bridges are put up speedily and neatly when required but are washed away when the floods come in the rainy season. Note the man in the flopping Shan headgear in the foreground. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = bridges; river scenes; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Nam Teng (river); Shan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

62. Photo 92/2(62)

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Photo 92/2(62)
Title:
Kyok Teng Camp, Salween. Can't find this in the gazetteer. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View on the Salween, with a rocky island in mid-stream. Subjects = river scenes; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Salween (river); Shan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

63. Photo 92/2(63)

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Photo 92/2(63)
Title:
[Unidentified river scene, probably in the Shan States]. It was up and down streams like this that the only practicable route lies. It necessitates crossing and re-crossing perhaps forty times in a march. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = river scenes; Scott (Sir George) Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

64. Photo 92/2(64)

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Photo 92/2(64)
Title:
Wat, Mong Hang. See a few pages back [print 28] for a photo of the smaller wat or kyoung here on extreme left. Mong Hang is a trans-Salween district of the S.S. [Southern Shan] state of Mong Pan, and is on the Siamese border. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple buildings. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); Scott (Sir George) Collection; temples; wats (Shan temples) Location = Burma; Mong Hang; Myanmar; Shan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

65. Photo 92/2(65)

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Photo 92/2(65)
Title:
Nam An in foreground, Keng Hung. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography River scene, with camp in foreground and town beyond. Location unidentified. The view is at Jinghong, formerly Cheli and before that Kenghung on the Mekong in southern Yunnan. Originally loosely affiliated to the Shan States, but transferred to China. See also Photo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

66. Photo 92/2(66)

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Photo 92/2(66)
Title:
Marsh inside Kengtung. This shows how wet the land is around the town. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = Burma; Keng Tung; Myanmar; Shan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

67. Photo 92/2(67)

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Photo 92/2(67)
Title:
Myosa of Loi Ngun. This peculiar name is spelt in Burmese Ngwe-daung. The state is a sub-feudatory of Eastern Karenni. The Myosa was in charge up to 1896, was then deposed by Sawlawi (Ruler of Karenni) and died in prison the next year. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Caption continues: 'He looks so melancholy here he might have forseen his unhappy fate'. Full-length seated portrait, with retainers, in front of a tent.He was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment and died at Ywathit in August 1897. Subjects = Burmese rulers; et...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

68. Photo 92/2(68)

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Photo 92/2(68)
Title:
A view of Mone. Mone (otherwise Mong-nai) has played a large part in the history of the states. It is over 2,716 square miles in area. It was here the rebel Twet nga lu was captured, after the brilliant dash by a handful of men in 1889. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking towards the Sintaung Pagoda on the hillside. The building in the right foreground is presumably the haw or palace. Duplicate at Photo 92/4 (76). Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; palaces; Scott (Sir Geo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

69. Photo 92/2(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/2(69)
Title:
[Unidentified scene, probably in the Shan States]. This gives some idea of the country, the towering hills rising from 4,000 to 7,000 feet to be surmounted in the day's march. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Caption continues: 'As the axes of the hills lie north and south anyone travelling east and west has to go up and down several of them in a day's journey and find at the end he has made about eight to twelve miles easting. Camp in clearing in foreground, looking tow...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

70. Photo 92/2(70)

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Photo 92/2(70)
Title:
Fort on the Tali River [Yunnan]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Photographed during the Burma-China Boundary Commission. For a duplicate of this print, see Photo 92/11 (315). Subjects = forts; river scenes; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = China; Tali (river); Yunnan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
1 item