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Photo 817(22)
- Record Id:
- 040-003108751
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003108729
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026024896.0x0014eb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 817(22)
- Title:
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[Photograph of a Burmese woman suckling a white elephant.] Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Historical Events
A note by A.G. McCrae on the verso reads: 'Any doubt of the authenticity of the tale that the Burmese Kings revered white elephants and had them suckled by women is removed by this picture and the letter of 1918'. The accompanying letter by Maung Kyaw, published in the Rangoon Gazette, April 8 1918, reads: 'During the reign of our last king one white elephant calf was found roaming about the forest...[it] was caught by the Burmese authorities and nursed by fifty strong and healthy nurses and made to drink from bowls of precious metals. Then...it was taken to Mandalay on a litter carried by men, together with fifty nursing women, but unfortunately the young elephant died en route to Mandalay'.
Subjects = animals; elephants
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003108729
040-003108751 - Is part of:
- Photo 817 : Miscellaneous views and ethnographical portraits in Burma.
Photo 817(22) : [Photograph of a Burmese woman suckling a white elephant.] Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003108729[0022]/040-003108751
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 817
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1880s-1890s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Places:
- Myanmar, Asia, Burma, South-east Asia