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Burma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Burma

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

A Burmese Dance, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2520
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Burmese women performing a dance in a courtyard with a group of men and musicians sitting and standing to the right hand side in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Burmese Carriage and Pair, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/452
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Burmese carriage with two people drawn by a pair of cattle through a village in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Burmese Hairy Family, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/701
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Burmese family of three, mother, father and son, who have Hypertrichosis in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Burmese illuminated manuscript

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1768
Scope and Contents The manuscript is an early or mid 19th century painted Burmese "parabaik", telling the story of Singapatta ("Sangthong" in the better known Thai version), a story from the Buddhist Pannasa Jataka-Suvarnasankha Jataka. The story was so popular that it was later adapted and spread in the forms of "jataka" in the monastic tradition and in the form of tale/performance in the secular tradition. This copy seems to derive from the secular tradition.The manuscript is showing hunting...
Dates: not known

Burmese Village, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/286
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Burmese village with some villagers sitting, wrapped in blankets, in front of their dwellings in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Elephants Moving Timber, Maulmain, [Burma], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3419
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men riding two elephants as the move timber in Maulmain, [Burma] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

General: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1946

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/8
Scope and Contents General: Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) file contains: SATO aims and objectives a map of clubs, groups and posts publication rejection for article on SATO entitled "Report on pre-release training for Malay and Burma commands" including comments on this SATO News for January, April, July, September and October 1945 ...
Dates: 1943-1946

Information sheets: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/10
Scope and Contents

Copies of the Service Arts Organisation (SAO) Information Notes No 1, August 1943 and No 2 January 1944, set of appendices for the SAO Memorandum November 1943. Copy of "Reconstruction Memorandum", laying down SATO's commitment to preparing for this.

Dates: 1943

Mandalay and North Burma Group: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1944-1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/B/21
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the Mandalay and North Burma Group of the Service Arts and Technical Organization, based at Meiktila, Shwebo and Maymyo. These includes a copy of the "505 District Orders" for 21 April 1945.

Dates: 1944-1945

My Village (1), 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/D/2
Scope and Contents Student project from the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic entitled "My Village" including completed questionnaires and manuscript maps, with names and origins of students. Exemplary course work from Hav Ahdul Rahman includes manuscript maps of his region, a hand written regional history and his photograph. The course booklet Twelfth Army Pre-Release Booklet No 1: First Village Uplift Course (for Punjab and NWFP...
Dates: 1946-1947