Add.Or.5358-5361 Four pages from a notebook containing drawings of Thai types and occupations. By a Thai artist at Ligor [Nagor Si Thammarat], c.1830. ...
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Add.Or.5358-5361 Four pages from a notebook containing drawings of Thai types and occupations. By a Thai artist at Ligor [Nagor Si Thammarat], c.1830. Water-colour with touches of body-colour; 18 by 21.5 cm. Purchased 2001. Note: The drawings come from a period just after Thailand had been ...
Row of men above and women below. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Siamese Petty Officers & other men. Siamese Women all of whom wear their lower garment in the same style as the Men.’
Women husking rice with a foot operated mortar and combing cotton onto a spindle.
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‘Women husking rice with a foot operated mortar and combing cotton onto a spindle.’ ‘Inscribed below in pencil:’ Siamese Women cleaning paddy. Siamese Woman cleaning cotton.
A corpulent stone image half buried in the ground with sticks behind it, and two standing priests
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A corpulent stone image half buried in the ground with sticks behind it, and two standing priests. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘A Siamese Image to which those suffering from lumbago at Ligor apply for relief, by placing little pieces of sticks behind it.’ Note: Ligor in southern Thailand on the...