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  • Pekon, Myanmar (Burma): eleven Padaung people, including four who wear neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Photograph, 19--.
  • Thirteen male prisoners in India or Burma ("dacoits", bandits) wearing chains around their necks and ankles. Process print.
  • Prome (Pyay), Burma: north view of the Great Pagoda. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.
  • Burma: a wounded political officer being carried on a stretcher. Wood engraving by P. Naumann, 1889, after W.B. Wollen.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • Prome (Pyay), Burma: view to the west from the Great Pagoda. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.
  • Burma: two figures reclining on a bed in a palace, while one servant swings a punkah and another pays homage. Watercolour.
  • Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.
  • Burma: members of the royal family accompanied by courtiers and drummers drive oxen through a rice paddy to inaugurate the annual crop. Gouache painting.
  • Drawing of huts in a World War II Prisoner of War camp, probably Tamuang, Thailand, part of the Burma-Thailand Railway. By an unknown artist
  • Orchid Tree or Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis Wallich.): flowering branch with separate fruit and sectioned ovary. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Burma: a monastery with ascetics or holy men outside; a group of monks giving or receiving pots; a mast with a snake descending from it; people processing foodstuffs. Gouache painting.
  • Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Pummelo or Pamplemousse (Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.): flowering and fruiting branch with numbered fruit segment and flower section. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.
  • An outdoor examination of a plague patient in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • A house being disinfected, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • A group of men taking notes at a table, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • A man sitting at a table examining passports, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by four female attendants, one of whom squats between her legs holding an implement. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by six female attendants, some of whom lay their hands on her stomach. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by two female attendants; one attendant stands on the birthing woman's chest whilst holding a rope suspended above her head. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by two female attendants, one of whom holds her stomach, the other holds her knees. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • Smallpox: its consequences (death, disfigurement, blindness) and prevention through vaccination. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1951.
  • A boy with leprosy sleeping, and holding a kite: three figures. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1949.
  • Four soldiers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers executing a robber (dacoit) by firing squad; three Burmese men seated in the foreground, watching the scene. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Burmese washing with water from a well in a market place in Mandalay. Wood engraving.
  • Flowers and leaves: trompe l'oeil paintings on the covers of a Burmese parabaik. Gouache painting.
  • A boy playing a saung or Burmese harp. Process print.