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Photo 92/6(20)
- Record Id:
- 041-003045525
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000fb6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/6(20)
- Title:
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This spirit shrine, with the spirit posts in the background, is particularly interesting, for the remains of a slaughtered hog adorn the altar in the foreground. Kye Bogi. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
The town of Kyebogi listed as Kye-Bo-Gyi in Scott's 'Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States' (5 vols, Rangoon, 1900-01). 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. 300, with caption note: 'A Karen place of sacrifice ... The rickety bamboo platform is the altar, with half a pig as an offering on it. The curved wooden slab in front is for offerings of flowers and fruit. When any member of a Red Karen family falls sick, a sacrifice is made to appease the wrath of a presumably aggrieved spirit. A fowl is killed and the bones are examined to find out the pleasure of the nat (the Burmese word for spirit). When this is settled the required animal is slaughtered and the head, ears, legs, and entrails are deposited in the nat-sin (shrine of the spirit).'
Subjects = ethnic groups; Karens; religion; sacrifices; Scott (Sir George) Collection; shrines; spirit posts; spirit worship
Location = Burma; Kayah; Kyebogi; Myanmar
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003045505
041-003045525 - 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(20) : This spirit shrine, with the spirit posts in the background, is particularly interesting, for the remains of a slaughtered hog… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0006]/040-003045505[0020]/041-003045525
- 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