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Photo 92/11(62)
- Record Id:
- 041-003046318
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x0012cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/11(62)
- Title:
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Mokmai [Mawk Mai] Sawbwa and chief wife. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Full-length seated portrait of Sow Kun Mon (b. c. 1861), Sawbwa of Mauk Mai from 1887, with his half-sister and wife Nang Num, posed in front of a decorative hanging. In his report on the Shan Chiefs (Mss Eur F278/66), Scott describes him thus: 'Weak; very uxorious; badly educated; speaks Burmese with difficulty. Loyalty nevertheless undoubted, and a certain amount of firmness being acquired through misfortune and stress of circumstances. Kun Mon was not suffered to have any chance of succeeding to the Sawbwaship and was therefore not trained in State affairs. When he shakes of the trammels of his wives' relations he may do well. This will come about when the ladies lose their good looks.' See also print 69.
[Albumen print, 72x98mm].
Subjects = Burmese rulers; ethnic groups; sawbwas (Shan rulers); Scott (Sir George) Collection; Shans
Location = Burma; Mawk Mai; Myanmar; Shan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003046256
041-003046318 - 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(62) : Mokmai [Mawk Mai] Sawbwa and chief wife. Photographer: Scott, Sir James George - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0011]/040-003046256[0062]/041-003046318
- 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:
- Nang Num, fl 1889
Nang Num, fl 1889
Scott, Sir James George
Sow Kun Mon, Mawk Mai Sawbwa, fl 1861
Sow Kun Mon, Mawk Mai Sawbwa, fl 1861