Kengtung (Shan States) Album, 1925
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
- From the File: Hendershot, Elva Jenkins (Elva Opal) (Person)
- From the File: Hendershot, Clarence (Person)
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 Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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
Source
- Hendershot, Elva Jenkins (Elva Opal) (Person)
Repository Details
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