Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

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146 x 106 mm. General view of a Kachin house, similar in construction to the Chin house seen in plates 20-21.

Scope and Contents 206 x 265 mm. Group portrait of three Kachin warriors. These men conform to Scott's description of the costume of the Northern (Khakhu) Kachins: 'Generally speaking the Khakhus wear a narrow turban wound round the head, but not concealing completely the top knot of hair; a coat with long sleeves, generally dyed with indigo, and without embroidery, and a striped oblong piece of cloth, just about the size of a bath-towel, which they pass around the waist and secure in front by a twist.'...

Scope and Contents 198 x 255 mm. Full length portrait of two Kachin women standing in front of a wooden fence. The precise tribe of the Kachin people to which these women belong has not been identified. From the description of costumes of the Northern (Khakhu) and Southern (Chingpaw) given in J.G. Scott's 'Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States', they appear to share characteristics of both groups. The women wear dark coloured turbans embroidered jackets and skirts made from a large oblong of woven...

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78 x 54 mm.

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98 x 74 mm. View looking along a path, probably in Kalewa, with a bungalow at the right.

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99 x 72 mm. Showing a hut with a damaged roof. The damage was probably caused by storms or land subsidence.

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100 x 75 mm. Showing a hut with a damaged roof. The damage was probably caused by storms or land subsidence.

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100 x 75 mm. View of a bungalow with roof blown off.

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101 x 71 mm. View of two bungalows, the one in the foreground collapsed.

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130 x 85 mm (oval print). A view looking down on two steam pinnaces moored at Kalewa, with a large gathering of packhorses grouped on the bank in the foreground.

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150 x 111 mm. View of the river at Kalewa, with jungle covered hills on either bank.

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98 x 75 mm. View looking towards unidentified buildings, with a Burmese man standing in the foreground.

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159 x 115 mm. View from the river giving a view of the cantonment buildings.

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150 x 111 mm. A view looking across the Chindwin riverbank towards houses in European style, with the towers of pagodas visible in the background. With wooden dugouts in the foreground. Kalewa is situated near the junction of the Myittha and Chindwin Rivers and was for a period the headquarters of the Chin Hills Military Command.

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157 x 107 mm. A view looking down on the village of Kalewa under floodwater, with the Chindwin River in the background. Situated at the junction of the Chindwin and Myittha Rivers, Kalewa was, until troops in the Chin Hills were replaced by military police, headquarters of the Chin Hills Military Command.

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99 x 73 mm. River scene, with a partially submerged hut in the middle distance and a paddle steamer moored on the further bank. A man can be seen sitting beside a hut in the right foreground.

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148 x 102 mm. A view looking across the Myittha River towards the houses of the village of Kan in the Chin hills. A footbridge crosses the river at the left of the print.

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Half-plate. One of the four colossal figures of Buddha dispensations facing the four porches of the Ananda Pagoda.

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A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.

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Showing a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'F.M. Muriel'. The postcard is printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd. Annotated 'B1' in bottom right-hand corner.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing boats moored at riverside].

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Half-plate (landscape format).