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Photo 92/11(51)
- Record Id:
- 041-003046307
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x0012c4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/11(51)
- Title:
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Mong Nai Sawbwa, 1889. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Full-length seated portrait of Sow Kun Kyi (b. c. 1849), Sawbwa of Mong Nai from 1873. This identification is taken from Scott's notes on rulers of the Shan States (see Mss Eur F278/66), although the sitter in this photograph looks younger than 40. Scott describes his character thus: 'Influence great; loyalty undoubted; leaves affairs too much in the hands of the Nwkan Maingtin, who is an inveterate schemer, but who at the same time, having visited Calcutta and having a house in Moulmein, is too well informed to intrigue against British authority. The Sawbwa occasionally takes fits of energy and manages State affairs, but usually devotes himself to agriculture and gardening, of which he is very fond. He walks a great deal (a most singular trait) and affects severe simplicity in his dress and train (also sufficiently uncommon among the Chiefs to be worth notice). He is very pious and extremely popular with his subjects...'
[Gelatin silver print, 72x97mm].
Subjects = Burmese rulers; sawbwas (Shan rulers); Scott (Sir George) Collection
Location = Burma; Mong Nai; Myanmar; Shan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003046256
041-003046307 - Is part of:
- Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/11 : Scott Collection: Album 'W', Views of Burma. Photographer(s): Sir George Scott, Felice Beato and others
Photo 92/11(51) : Mong Nai Sawbwa, 1889. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0011]/040-003046256[0051]/041-003046307
- 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:
- 1889
- End Date:
- 1889
- Date Range:
- 1889
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Scott, Sir James George
Sow Kun Kyi, Mong Nai Sawbwa, fl 1849