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Photo 92/6(30)
- Record Id:
- 041-003045535
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000fc0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/6(30)
- Title:
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The [Padaung/Kèkawngdu] ladies, muffled up in their clothes, stand right beneath a verandah, on which a row of small faces shows up. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Group of Padaung women and children posed in front of a house. Published: Sir George Scott, 'Among the Hill Tribes of Burma—An Ethnological Thicket' (National Geographic, vol. 41, no. 3, March 1922, pp. 293-321), p. 296, with caption note: 'Kèkawngdu women photographed for the first time in their lives. Note the onlooker, with the solemn mien of a chaperon, standing on the platform. In Burma 'Her throat is like a swan' is not a mere poetic figure of speech, in so far as length is concerned.' In the body of the article, Scott comments on the difficulties of photographing people who had not previously encountered the camera: 'The taking of photographs was by no means an easy task in the earliest days of the British occupation. It was looked on as white magic, and the sight of the camera, and more particularly the focussing cloth, was enough to send all the women scuttling off into the jungle or into the black darkness of their homes...Perhaps no one is altogether free from self-consciousness when being formally photographed, but of these tribes the Padaungs are the least affected and the least unwilling to have their likenesses taken...' (p. 315).
Subjects = architecture (vernacular); dwellings; ethnic groups; Karens; Padaungs; rural life; Scott (Sir George) Collection; villages
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003045505
041-003045535 - 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(30) : The [Padaung/Kèkawngdu] ladies, muffled up in their clothes, stand right beneath a verandah, on which a row of small faces shows… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0006]/040-003045505[0030]/041-003045535
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1890s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Photograph Album
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Scott, Sir James George
- Subjects:
- Architectural Types
Architecture
Dwellings
Ethnic groups
Houses
Padaungs
South-East Asian Ethnic Groups - Places:
- Kayah, Myanmar, Asia, Burma, South-east Asia