Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1865
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19498i
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Probably photographed on John Thomson's visit to Phetchaburi. Two women with fantastic headgear and long metal fingernail extensions, posing in Siamese dance attitudes on rush matting in front of some dense foliage. The left figure is costumed as a man, the right one as a woman. Similar scene to Thomson's negative number 624. For further details of the elaborate costumes see Paisarn Piemmettawat, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

1865

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Siamese dancing girls Bears Thomson's negative number: "625"

References note

Paisarn Piemmettawat, Siam through the lens of John Thomson 1865-66, including Angkor and coastal China, Bangkok: River Books, 2015, pp. 82-83

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19498i

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