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Kengtung (Shan States) Album, 1925

 Item

Scope and Contents

Kengtung Album, circa 1925. Files: Album of paintings; Reference materials; clippings. Kengtung Album reproduction prints. Kengtung Album digital file. Files: Working files (4 discs); Camera files (4 discs); Print files (2 discs)

Dates

  • Creation: 1925

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder.

Biographical / Historical

Twenty-six page presentation album from the "Kengtung painter of Yan Hlwa village (Shan State) to American Baptist missionary nurse, Elva Jenkins (Hendershot) to thank her for treating his wife. Such albums by the Kengtung artist probably served as view books of various ethnic peoples either for some native notable, or for the European clientele living in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

Burmese

Repository Details

Part of the American Baptist Historical Society Repository

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