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9971. WD540(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(83)
Title:
Governor of Pagân.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Governor of Pagân.’ CALLED also the ‘Myit-sing-woon’, ‘a kind of High Sheriff of the Irrawaddee.’ (Report page 34 )
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9972. WD540(86)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(86)
Title:
Moung-Gya-oo. Mugway Mengyee - Chief Woongee, or Prime Minister of State.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung-Gya-oo. Mugway Mengyee - Chief Woongee, or Prime Minister of State.’ THE ‘Mugwe Mengyee’, Chief Woongee, or Prime Minister of State. Age about 58. ‘See Report page 247, and 248’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9973. WD540(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(87)
Title:
Moung Mho, the Myadoung Myotsa. Second Woongee.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Mho, the Myadoung Myotsa. Second Woongee.’ THE ‘Myadoung Myotsa’, Second Woongyee; generally called the ‘Pabè’ (or Smith) ‘Woon’, from having been formerly a sort of Master General of the ordnance. Age about 53. ‘See Report page 247’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9974. WD540(88)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(88)
Title:
Moung Mhon. The Woondouk.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Mhon. The Woondouk.’ ‘The Woondouk’. He was the second person in rank of the Ambassadors who visited Calcutta on a Mission to the Governor General in 1854; and was the Officer who met and accompanied the English Embassy to Umeerapoora, and therefore figures so frequently in the Secretar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9975. WD540(89)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(89)
Title:
Moung Tooh. Tara-thoo-gyee, or Chief Civil Judge.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Tooh. Tara-thoo-gyee, or Chief Civil Judge.’ THE ‘Tara-thoo-gyee’, or Chief Judge of the Capital in Civil cases, who had also a kind of nominal superintendence over the affairs of the Residency, and was therefore a frequent and familiar visitor. With all the free and easy manners, the g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9976. WD540(90)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(90)
Title:
The Tsare-daugee or Royal Scribe. In charge of British Residency.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Tsare-daugee or Royal Scribe. In charge of British Residency.’ THIS most amusingly imperturbable old official was invested with charge of the British Residency as a sort of Major Domo; an office he contrived to fill with that amount of success which won for him the very highest meed of — ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9977. WD540(91)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(91)
Title:
Mr. Mackertich J. Mines. Governor of Melloon.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Mr. Mackertich J. Mines. Governor of Melloon.’ LATE Governor of Melloon. Mr. Mackertich is an Armenian, but naturalized to Burmah. He was one of the Burmese Embassy to Calcutta in 1854, and on the English mission reaching Melloon, of which place he was then Governor, he formed a Member of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9978. WD540(92)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(92)
Title:
Mr. Antonio Camaretta. Collector of Customs &c.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Mr. Antonio Camaretta. Collector of Customs &c.’ Is by birth a Portuguese of Goa. He has been above 30 years in the Burmese service, and is the present ‘Akouk-Woon’, or Collector of Customs at Umeerapoora, besides holding some office in the Palace connected witli the Royal Treasury. Mr. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9979. WD540(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(95)
Title:
Maphoon, The Hirsute faced Woman of Ava, and her child.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Maphoon, The Hirsute faced Woman of Ava, and her child.’ THIS extraordinary object is fully described in the Report, page 110. A Portrait of her as a child, together with that of her father, will be found in Crawfords ‘Embassy’ to Burmah in 1826. Maphoon is now a woman of 31 years of age, and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9980. WD540(96)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(96)
Title:
Profile of the Hirsute faced Woman of Ava.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Profile of the Hirsute faced Woman of Ava.’ THE PROFILE of Maphoon had little or nothing to mitigate the original impression. The hair of the face, hiding the features and uniting with that of the ordinary mass on the head, seemed to form one hirsute block.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

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