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1251. Photo 92/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/1(15)
Title:
Another group of the first [Burma-China Boundary] Commission year. The party had been reinforced, among the newcomers Col [A.M.D.] Lloyd VC. [Possibly taken at Longling, western Yunnan.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of boundary commission officers, Prefect Peng and General Liu in centre of group. Col Ma is seated left. Subjects = boundary commissions; Scott (Sir George) Collection; Victoria Cross holders Location = China; Longling; Yunnan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1898-1899
Extent:
1 item

1252. Photo 92/1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/1(28)
Title:
Mong Ka on the Chinese border where the [Burma-China Boundary] Commission rested for some days and had a social interlude. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking along valley, with wall in foreground. Subjects = boundary commissions; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = China; Mong Ka; Yunnan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1899
Extent:
1 item

1253. Photo 92/1(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/1(69)
Title:
Procession of Shin-pyu, boys about to enter a monastery for their novitiate. They are decorated with all the best clothes the family can produce. Lyungis of rich silk and supple new hats. [?at Namhkam.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Group of novitiates posed in front of temple pagodas. Location unspecified, but possibly at Nam Hkam in the Northern Shan States. For another view taken on the same occasion, see Photo 92/8 (62). Subjects = monks; novitiates; religion; religion (Buddhism); Scott (Sir George) Collection; shin-p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1254. Photo 92/2(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/2(41)
Title:
Fort Stedman from the west. Fort Stedman, the headquarters of the Shan States control at first, was in Yaunghwe territory, close to the famous [Inle] Lake. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = forts; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = Burma; Myanmar; Shan; Yaunghwe
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1255. 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

1256. Photo 92/2(73)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/2(73)
Title:
Siamese post at Me-Hsate. A river in trans-Salween Karenni which runs into the Salween. One can see straight up to the watershed from the river's mouth. Up this valley there is a route to Mehonghsawn. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Caption continues: 'To watch this route the Siamese established a post in 1889-90 on the right bank of the stream. The English were opposite. The Union Jack can be seen outside the tent of the Political Officer (Scott)'. See also Photo 92/3 (67). Subjects = bounda...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1889-1890
Extent:
1 item

1257. Photo 92/3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/3(10)
Title:
This man ruled a state on the border of Siam, called Mong Chen or Mong Hsing.[Now Muong Sing, Laos.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Caption continues: 'When the French acquired some of Siam there was a suggestion that part of this should be made a Buffer State. The Myosa did not know to whom he shld show allegiance and went and hid himself'. Photograph shows the myosa seated outside his haw or palac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1894
Extent:
1 item

1258. Photo 92/3(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/3(11)
Title:
This is an interesting group. Captain Renny-Tailyour who went on the first Wild Wa Expedition. Mr (Sir Hugh) Daly, W. Warry, Chinese Political Adviser and expert, and Captain G.V. Burrows. All their names are well-known. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, posed in front of a tent. Precise date and location unknown, but probably photographed around the time of Scott's attachment to the Mekong Commission. Subjects = dress (European); Scott (Sir George) Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1894
Extent:
1 item

1259. Photo 92/3(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/3(18)
Title:
A Gaungto bachelor seated all alone. Owing to strict laws of endogamy there are many bachelors [Shan States]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of a Gaungto (Karen) man seated on a rock. Published: Sir George Scott, 'Among the Hill Tribes of Burma—An Ethnological Thicket' (National Geographic, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 293-321, March 1922), p. 316, with caption note: 'A Gaungto bachelor....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1260. Photo 92/3(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/3(71)
Title:
Another view of the same thing [Court of Justice, Keng Tung]. Note the clock on the Sawbwa's throne. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
View looking along the hall towards the carved wooden throne of the Sawbwa of Keng Tung. A European clock hangs on the throne. Reproduced in Scott's Handbook, with the caption: 'Ministers paying homage to the absent Sawbwa'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; courthouses; furniture and furnishin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 item