Genre: Architectural Photography Unidentified photograph of a small enclosure on a hilltop containing a shrine-like structure. A man standing outside the enclosure is Tibetan in appearance. Subjects = shrines; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist); unidentified
[Portrait of the bearded family of Mandalay.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography This family was an exotic curiosity in the court of Mandalay and a meeting with Maphoon, probably the woman in this print, is described in Henry Yule's Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855, pp93-94, which is accompanied by a lithograph (Plate 17...