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Inya Lake House - Rangoon
Wedding reception - Rangoon - Daughter of Daw Mya Sein and son of Sir Thoon Aung Gyaw, reception held on the lawn in Godwin Road
weavers - Inle LakeWeavers - Inle Lake - They sell all their silks at the Taungyi bazaar Date: 1952
weavers family - Inle LakeWeavers family - Inle Lake - Upstairs a wide balcony, one big dark room. Cordiality of the women of the house. We go downstairs to the weaving room under the house
entrance to village - Inle LakeEntrance to village - Inle Lake - A bamboo gate to guard the entrance to village. Little canals winding among homes on stilts, lovely gardens. Date: 1952
weavers house - Inle LakeWeavers house - Inle Lake - We turn into a private gate and stop at the verandah steps. Date: 1952
Leg rowers - Inle Lake - Leg rowers three at front, two at back, hard to photograph as they are going faster than our outboard. Date: 1952
stilt houses - Inle LakeStilt houses - Inle Lake - Basha on stilts on half-island. Date: 1952
floating island Chiang - Inle LakeFloating island Chiang - Inle Lake - Chiang looking top heavy on soggy patches of land. Date: 1952
lake duggout boat - Inle LakeLake duggout boat - Inle Lake - Long 40-foot seat-less shell boat and outboard motor. Date: 1952
floating island villages - Inle LakeFloating island villages - Inle Lake - The floating islands of the lake dwellers, clear green rectangles of the bamboo rafts growing out from the shore like algae
Novice Nuns - KalawKalaw - Novice nuns Date: 1952
Anne with novice pongyis - Kalaw - Anne with young pongyis at Tozaung Date: 1952
Pwe procession - Kalaw - young men and girls in old-style costumes Date: 1952
watering Bo tree - Kalaw - The next and last Buddha will obtain supreme intelligence under the Bo tree (mseua ferrea). It sprang up at Guatamas birth, stood in centre of earth. Worshipped
rural pagodas - Kalaw - Pagodas outside Tozaung at north end of the village. Date: 1952
U Tin Pe and Daw Zun - Kalaw - U Tin Pe and wife Daw Zun (parents of U Tin Tun, of Union Bank of Burma) Date: 1952
Kalaw garden - Kalaw - Tun Pes garden Date: 1952
on train to Sin Taung - KalawOn train to Sin Taung - Kalaw - Water buffalo ploughing. Much of the upland type of farming is responsible for the prevalent erosion = jungle burned back, top soil farmed away in rice, corn
Anne with Burmese lilies - Kalaw - Tun Pes garden, with lovely lilies white, pink, blue. Date: 1952
Sin Taung village - Kalaw - SinTaung (sin =elephant, taung = mountain). A Gurka village - Walk to station to take the down train to Sintaung to eat picnic lunch and then await return train
Gurka women - Kalaw - Sin taung - Gurka women Date: 1952
Toungthou women - Kalaw - Dark, short, stocky women of Toungthou. Wear black loose hanging nightshirts some with baggy black pants, tight like jodhpurs over the calf
Shan famers - Kalaw - Shan farmers with their produce baskets Date: 1952
Chinthes - Kalaw - Chinthes on road to Aungban Date: 1952
Railway Station - Kalaw - Railway Station Date: 1952
banana bazaar - KalawBanana bazaar - Kalaw - Banana Bazaar Date: 1952
paddy terraces - KalawPaddy terraces - Kalaw - Rice paddy terraces on the road to Aungban Date: 1952
Main Street - Kalaw - Main Street Date: 1952
bazaar - KalawBazaar - Kalaw - Bazaar Date: 1952
bazaar shop - KalawBazaar shop - Kalaw - Bazaar Shop Date: 1952
Pagoda Ridge - Kalaw - Pagoda Ridge Date: 1952
village from Pagoda ridge - KalawVillage from Pagoda ridge - Kalaw - Village from Pagoda Ridge Date: 1952
road to bazaar - KalawRoad to bazaar - Kalaw Date: 1952
basha house - KalawBasha house - Kalaw - Basha House Date: 1952
Hill view - Kalaw - Pagoda Ridge from Kalaw Hotel Date: 1952
The Kalaw Hotel - Kalaw - The Hotel is off to one side near the end of the valley - stucco and half-timbered, casual and unpretentious
Village view - Kalaw - Kalaw rests like a sprinkling of tea leaves in the cup between hills, a tiny village around a market square with inevitable corrugated iron sheds
Heho Valley - Central Burma - Over strangely treeless moors, climbing up from the Shan Plateau, wide, wide view that seemed like pictures of the African Veldt. Date: 1952
Jungles en route to Kalaw - Central Burma - Great sharp valleys and long ridges, dense with jungle. We fly at about 8, 000 feet and sometimes seem close over the endless green of lumpy tree tops
Heho airport - Central Burma - An oversized pasture with little basha administrative huts. Date: 1952
Doug with U Win Pe - Pegu - Doug with his tutor, U Win Pe Win Pe took us to the 10th Century pagoda of the golden duck - a curious parallel to our dove from the Ark
Reclining Buddha - Pegu - Reclining Buddha - Elaborate glass mosaics on the heroic feet and devan. Date: 1952
Buddha - Pegu - Strong Siamese influences of Pegu Buddha, being the starting point for endless raids against Siam. The armies, after meditation at the Shwemedaw
roadside stalls - PeguRoadside stalls - Pegu - Bottleneck entering city, at one-way bridge built by returning British army, with a maximum three-year guarantee
Shwemedaw Pagoda - Pegu - Shwemedaw Pagoda - In the course of foundation reinforcement and rebuilding, relics have been found dating back to 10th Century
Shimbyu dancer - Rangoon - Member of the street parade. Date: 1952
Shimbyu - Rangoon - Offerings by family to the monastery. Pungyi robes are woven and dyed in a single night, great honour gained by those completing theirs first
