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1531. Photo 92/10(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/10(62)
Title:
Wild Wa prisoners, 'One so hideously ugly - the only one I wanted to get'. See 'Scott of the Shan Hills'. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 61. [Albumen print, 181x119mm]. Subjects = ethnic groups; military (general); military campaigns; prisoners; Was (ethnic group, Burma)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item

1532. Photo 92/6(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/6(30)
Title:
The [Padaung/Kèkawngdu] ladies, muffled up in their clothes, stand right beneath a verandah, on which a row of small faces shows up. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Padaung women and children posed in front of a house. Published: Sir George Scott, 'Among the Hill Tribes of Burma—An Ethnological Thicket' (National Geographic, vol. 41, no. 3, March 1922, pp. 293-321), p. 296, with caption note: 'Kèkawngdu women phot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1533. Photo 92/5(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/5(19)
Title:
A group of Wild Wa. These are also Wa Pwi. It is a pity they moved, but the face of the man in lower left corner is clear and savage enough. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photographed during the Second Wild Wa Expedition. Subjects = ethnic groups; military (general); military campaigns; Scott (Sir George) Collection; Was (ethnic group, Burma)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 item

1534. Photo 92/11(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/11(62)
Title:
Mokmai [Mawk Mai] Sawbwa and chief wife. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Sow Kun Mon (b. c. 1861), Sawbwa of Mauk Mai from 1887, with his half-sister and wife Nang Num, posed in front of a decorative hanging. In his report on the Shan Chiefs (Mss Eur F278/66), Scott describes him thus: 'Weak; very uxorious; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1889
Extent:
1 item

1535. Photo 92/10(73)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/10(73)
Title:
The Conclave of the Wa Chiefs (Petken) when the first Sanad was read out to them by an interpreter. Open air bathroom in background. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Group of Wa chiefs seated on the ground in a semi-circle around the interpreter reading the document, photographed at Pang Mi. Reproduced in G.E.Mitton, 'Scott of the Shan Hills' (London, 1936), facing p. 235, there captioned, 'The meeting of the PeT Ken (Wa chiefs). Th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1897
Extent:
1 item

1536. Photo 92/2(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/2(56)
Title:
The Sawbwa of Lawksawk. Lawksawk contains an area of over 4,000 square miles. In this state are valuable teak forests, and in the west orange groves. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the Sawbwa and family, posed in front of a textile backdrop, with the Sawbwa's haw or palace in the background. The figure seen here is Hkun Hsuk (b. 1863), who became Sawbwa of Lawksawk in 1900. Subjects = Burmese rulers; sawbwas (Shan rulers); S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

1537. Photo 92/10(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/10(12)
Title:
Scott with Pink and Darwin, Kengtung, 1889-90. Photographer: Scott, James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of James George Scott, Roger T. Darwin and Colonel Francis John Pink, standing in front of a tent at Kengtung. Location = Burma; Keng Tung; Myanmar; Shan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1889-1890
Extent:
1 item

1538. Photo 92/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/1(1)
Title:
The Burma-China Boundary Commission 1898-9. Peng - Liu - Breithaupt - Captain H.B. Walker - Renny Tailyour. These photoes were taken by J.G. Scott & so he, our commissioner, is not in them. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of British and Chinese boundary commission staff. Subjects = boundary commissions; Scott (Sir George) Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1898
Extent:
1 item

1539. Photo 92/11(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/11(23)
Title:
No. 3. Mong Nai, 1889. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group of five Europeans seated on the verandah steps of a house, probably the Mong Nai Residency. Scott is seated in the centre, Roger T. Darwin top left, A.H. Hildebrand top right, G.H. Barnard bottom left, W.E. Muntz bottom right. Reproduced in Lady G.E. Mitton, 'S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1889
Extent:
1 item

1540. Photo 92/11(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/11(6)
Title:
[Group portrait of] Faithful, B. S. Carey, W. Calogreedy, S. H. T. de la Courneuve, Lt. H. F. Holland. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of A.H. Faithful (Burma Police), (Sir) Bertram Sausmarez Carey (Political Officer, Chin Hills), W. Calogreedy (Myook, Treasury, Meiktela), S. H. T. De La Courneuve (Burma Commission), and Lieutenant Harry Franc Holland (Commandant, Military Police Batt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1889
Extent:
1 item