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Photo 355/1(214)
- Record Id:
- 041-003063905
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003063690
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025712784.0x001126
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 355/1(214)
- Title:
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[Burmese Embassy at Simla.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Historical Events
Burmese group seated in front of a house at Simla, with Robert Hope Pilcher ICS in the centre. Sitters are identified as follows: Kyoukmyoung Myoza Atwinwoon; Wemmasoot Myoza Woondouk; Toung taya ngazeh Bo; Oo Mya; R.H. Pilcher; Thanjet Woondouk; Oo Pouktoon. See 215 for letterpress text accompanying print.
An engraving from a photograph of the principal members of the Burmese embassy in court dress, by Bourne and Shepherd, is published in 'The Graphic' of 21 October 1882, p. 16. The two portraits in this album, showing the sitters in less formal dress (prints 214 and 216), were presumably taken on the same occasion. 'The Graphic' presumably also had access to these images, since the letterpress description of the embassy (p. 6), describes the dress worn in these portraits: 'Their ordinary costume is much more simple, being the ordinary Burmese dress, consisting of a white muslin jacket, with bright parti-coloured putsols, or petticoats, and the Court headdress of white muslin wound round the upper part of the head, below the topknot.'
Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); diplomatic missions; Dunlop Smith Collection; embassies; ethnic groups
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003063690
040-003063691
041-003063905 - Is part of:
- Photo 355 : Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith Collection: Photographs relating to the life and career in India of Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith.
Photo 355/1 : Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Photo 355/1(214) : [Burmese Embassy at Simla.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd - Hierarchy:
- 032-003063690[0001]/040-003063691[0214]/041-003063905
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 355
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1882
- End Date:
- 1882
- Date Range:
- May 1882-Aug 1882
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Bourne and Shepherd, photographers
Pilcher, Robert Hope, 1849-1885 - Subjects:
- Burmese Embassy to Simla, 1882
- Places:
- Simla, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Himāchal Pradesh, India, Asia