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Photo 92/6(6)
- Record Id:
- 041-003045511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000fa8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/6(6)
- Title:
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Brè girls. They were shy, not knowing how much the camera might reveal. The one on the right is married and is wearing her husband's bachelor boars' tushes [Shan States]. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Two Brè (Karen) girls seated on a rock, showing brass leg bands. The pose is telling: both girls cover the lower part of the face with one hand, while the other is held between the thighs. This photograph is reproduced as the frontispiece to Scott's 'Burma and Beyond' (London, 1932). Also published: Sir George Scott, 'Among the Hill Tribes of Burma—An Ethnological Thicket' (National Geographic, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 293-321, March 1922), p. 312, with caption note: 'Brè girls, very distrustful of the photographer. Note the boar's tusk necklace. The household means have not admitted of brass coils around the arms, but the legs have not been neglected; neither have the lobes of the ears (see text, page 318).
Subjects = Brés (ethnic group, Burma); ethnic groups; Karens; Scott (Sir George) Collection
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003045505
041-003045511 - Is part of:
- Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/6 : Scott Collection: Views in Keng Tung and the Wild Wa Country. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/6(6) : Brè girls. They were shy, not knowing how much the camera might reveal. The one on the right is married and is wearing her… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0006]/040-003045505[0006]/041-003045511
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1890s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Scott, Sir James George
- Places:
- Shan, Myanmar, Asia, Burma, South-east Asia