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Photo 92/3

Record Id:: 040-003045274
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-003045119
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000ebb
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 92/3
Title:: Scott Collection: Views in Keng Tung and Yunnan. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Scope & Content:: Black half-leather bound album (spine broken and covers detached) measuring 304 x 370 mm, with prints inserted one to a page in window mounts, with typewritten captions pasted beneath each print.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:: 032-003045119
040-003045274
Is part of:: Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George

Photo 92/3 : Scott Collection: Views in Keng Tung and Yunnan. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Contains:: Photo 92/3(1) : This is the ferry across the Salween on the road between Nawng Hpa & Man Hpang. It is called Ta Pang Ti. he river is about…
Photo 92/3(2) : Buffalo posts in the Wa village of Mot Hsamo. Set up to signify the sacrifice of a buffalo for the good of the community.…
Photo 92/3(3) : Another view of buffalo posts in the same village. Note naked baby alone in the midst, and one of the British horses in a shed…
Photo 92/3(4) : This rather suggests an English village scene with Church steeples but is a scene in Kengtung. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(5) : A variety of pagodas from the plain to the ornate in Kengtung. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(6) : [Scene in Keng Tung.] A different point of view of the scene on the previous page. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(7) : Here the highly decorated and cage-like htees on the pagodas show up well. Kengtung. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(8) : A Kachin house, with spirit posts all round outside. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(9) : These people are Lihsaw otherwise known as Yawyin; a good looking race. They are real hill people and always make for the…
Photo 92/3(10) : This man ruled a state on the border of Siam, called Mong Chen or Mong Hsing.[Now Muong Sing, Laos.] Photographer: Scott, Sir…
Photo 92/3(11) : This is an interesting group. Captain Renny-Tailyour who went on the first Wild Wa Expedition. Mr (Sir Hugh) Daly, W. Warry,…
Photo 92/3(12) : A large monastery in the town of Kengtung, with two tall spirit posts outside showing that the monks themselves are not without…
Photo 92/3(13) : On the first visit paid by any British official to the trans-Salween state of Kengtung, there was some danger of a mischance…
Photo 92/3(14) : Nam Pang (Nam means river) in the state of Keng Hkam. The river is the principal feature of the state. The view across it is one…
Photo 92/3(15) : The Salween at Me Nyin Sang (or Hsang). Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(16) : Very often a strip of foreshore was the only possible camping ground. The hills rose so steeply from the water that there was…
Photo 92/3(17) : The Nam An in foreground. Keng Hung 1891. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(18) : A Gaungto bachelor seated all alone. Owing to strict laws of endogamy there are many bachelors [Shan States]. Photographer: Scott,…
Photo 92/3(19) : A view of Mong Pawn from the distance. The state is a small one but important. It consists of a long strip down the side of the…
Photo 92/3(20) : Fort Stedman [Yaunghwe], the first official headquarters of the British in the Shan States. Called after en. Sir Edmund…
Photo 92/3(21) : Camp by a cactus hedge: Mong Pawn in the distance. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(22) : Scott came across this Chinese giant on his trip over into Yunnan fu after the end of the first season of the Burma-China…
Photo 92/3(23) : Camp on the Taping river during the first Burma-China Boundary Commission. The Chinese houses are seen over on the other side.…
Photo 92/3(24) : Fort on the Tali River [Yunnan]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/3(25) : The Sawbwa's Haw or Palace, Kengtung. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
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Hierarchy:: 032-003045119[0003]/040-003045274
Container:: View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 76 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:: Not applicable
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Techniques:: Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Start Date:: 1880
End Date:: 1899
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Era:: CE
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Physical Characteristics:: Dimensions: 190 mm x 240 mm
Source of Acquisition:: Purchase, 1949: Purchased from Lady Scott. Acquired in 1949.
Material Type:: Photographs
Legal Status:: Not Known