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Photo 92/5

Record Id:: 040-003045428
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-003045119
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000f55
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 92/5
Title:: Scott Collection: Views in Keng Tung and the Wild Wa Country. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Scope & Content:: Black half-leather bound album (spine broken and covers detached) measuring 207 x 285 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
040-003045428
Is part of:: Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George

Photo 92/5 : Scott Collection: Views in Keng Tung and the Wild Wa Country. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Contains:: Photo 92/5(1) : The Gold Stream in the Wa Country. 'Shan, Chinese, Burmese, Sikh, Gurkha and Briton dug in the sand & gravel in…
Photo 92/5(2) : Loi Lon. Village in the Wa country. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(3) : Loi Lon from another point of view. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(4) : Loi Lon burning after its defiance in 1897. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(5) : Another view [of the burning of Loi Lon village, Wa country]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(6) : [?View in Yunnan photographed during the Burma-China Boundary Commission.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(7) : View taken during first visit to the Boundary 1898-9, Mong Pu. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(8) : Mong Ka on the Chinese boundary. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(9) : A camp in the Wild Wa country. The useful 'spotted circus' horse just appears behind the other. Photographer: Scott, Sir…
Photo 92/5(10) : A street in Na Fan, Wa-land. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(11) : A group of Wild Wa, women & a boy taken at Yawn Pruk in 1897. These are the Wa Pwi, said to be the wildest of all.…
Photo 92/5(12) : Shan-Chinese people with dug-outs [Shan States]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(13) : Another picture of the Gold Stream. Scott and his party, so far as is known, are the only Europeans who have visited it.…
Photo 92/5(14) : The Kengtung Bazar. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(15) : Women in the Wa country. Scott says some of them are really quite pretty. Goitre however is very prevalent. Photographer: Scott,…
Photo 92/5(16) : A back street in Kengtung. The woman holds a cooking pot; the men wear the ditinctive bamboo hats of the Shans. Photographer:…
Photo 92/5(17) : Bridge Ko Up, Nam Teng. These bridges are quite temporary and are washed away when the flood comes after the rains.…
Photo 92/5(18) : Camp Mong Pu, Kengtung. Note the spirit posts in the right hand distance. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(19) : 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…
Photo 92/5(20) : This shows the sort of country that had to be negotiated [in the Wa country]. A guide to the tracks was essential.…
Photo 92/5(21) : [Thatched house and clearing, unidentified location, Shan States.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
Photo 92/5(22) : These girls of the tamer sort of Wa, are dressed in their best for the bazar. They wear silver earring like long nails, and…
Photo 92/5(23) : Here is another [portrait of the Wa girl seen in print 22] with a man on one side and a boy on the other. Her short kirtle and…
Photo 92/5(24) : Other specimens [of Wa men and women] not so good-looking. The man wears as waist cloth one of their home-made…
Photo 92/5(25) : In this [Wa group] the crop-headed boy standing upright shows his blanket touching the ground. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
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Hierarchy:: 032-003045119[0005]/040-003045428
Container:: View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 76 items
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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: 115 mm x 180 mm
Source of Acquisition:: Purchase, 1949: Purchased from Lady Scott. Acquired in 1949.
Material Type:: Photographs
Legal Status:: Not Known