Burmese racing boats. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two long Burmese racing canoes in river in foreground, spectators on verandah of building on further bank. Duplicate at Photo 88 (29). Subjects = boat racing; Burmese (ethnic group); Elgin Collection; ethnic groups; sports
Burmese mother and child. Photographer: Beato, Felice
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length studio portrait, mother holding 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 and customs; tobacco
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length studio portrait, woman holding 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 and customs; tobacco
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
[Fortified village and stockade.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Historical Events Looking along a palisade towards a group of soldiers gathered at the gateway to the unidentified village. The palisade has an additional defensive perimeter of sharp wooden stakes. Photograph presumably taken during one of the pacification campaigns following the Third ...