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Photo 92/6(36)
- Record Id:
- 041-003045541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000fc6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/6(36)
- Title:
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The women dressed in light colours are Taungyo, and the dark one a Taungthu. The smock or jumper of the latter is black with a kind of diaper weave that excited admiration in the experts at the Sth. Kensington Mus. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Group portrait of Taungyo and one Taungthu women. 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. 303, with caption note: Karen ladies posed for their pictures by an officious headman. The lady on the right [covering her child's face] is determined that the evil eye shall not fall on her infant. The taking of photographs was by no means an easy matter in the earliest days of the British occupation. It was looked upon as white magic (see text, page 313). One day a chief upon being invited to look at the focusing glass exclaimed, 'Why, they're all upside down!' The women took on a conscious attitude on the spot, and the men shifted their feet uneasily, all of them adopting a stained-glass attitude.'
Subjects = ethnic groups; Scott (Sir George) Collection; Taungthus; Taungyos
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003045505
041-003045541 - 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(36) : The women dressed in light colours are Taungyo, and the dark one a Taungthu. The smock or jumper of the latter is black with a kind… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0006]/040-003045505[0036]/041-003045541
- 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