Bamboo Collection

Nipa Houses near Manila, Philippines
Nipa Stilt Houses (also known as bahay kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines. The native house is constructed out of bamboo tied together)

Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s

Philippines - Manila - Traditional stilt houses
Philippines - Manila - Traditional bamboo stilt houses

Four Japanese women amid bamboo with a young child
Four Japanese women stand amid bamboo with a young child seated in the front and surrounded by hanging baskets of food and Japanese flags and figurines

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1890
Variety of Victorian household items. 1890

Faience plate painted with a Chinoiserie decoration. C. 1670
Faience plate painted with a Chinoiserie decoration. C.1670-1690. Anonymous. Delft. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Advert for Maple & Co furniture 1895
Selection of household furnishings. Date: 1895

Occasional table
Bamboo occasional table with a lacquered octagonal top and four drop-down leaves, manufactured by W.F. Needham in Birmingham, c.1888. Date: c.1888

Kobe, Japan - A komuso (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Date: 1928

Chinese toy seller and boys playing Jianzi, Qing Dynasty
Chinese itinerant toy seller and boys playing Jianzi by kicking a shuttlecock, Qing Dynasty. The toy man holds a bamboo stick with three small puppets

Embroiderer working on two pieces of silk cloth, Qing Dynasty. One with a bird for a civil mandarin, one with a quadruped animal for a military mandarin

Laos - Champasak Province - Man and woman of the Lao Theung
Laos - Champasak Province - A man and woman of the Lao Theung (or Lao Thoeng) Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Poling a barge along the Hozu River
Japan - A brave boatman poling a barge solo along the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Variety teapot and lid
Glazed porcelain teapot and lid decorated with the Variety pattern, a transfer-printed blue design including geometric motifs, fans and bamboo

Making bamboo baskets, Japan

Japan making bamboo baskets pre-1900

Bamboo Plantation, Peking, China in the early 1900s

Nanjing bamboo plantation, China

Samuel Cody, wooden components from aircraft
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Fascinating collection of original bamboo and other wing stanchions and aircraft spars used in a variety of Samuel Cody?s aircraft

Samuel Cody, bamboo components from aircraft
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Fascinating collection of original bamboo and other wing stanchions and aircraft spars used in a variety of Samuel Cody?s aircraft

Japan - Bamboo Ornament Shop
Bamboo Ornament Shop, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Umbrella Maker
Umbrella Maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Bamboo Blind maker
Bamboo Blind maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Bamboo Ware Maker
Bamboo Ware Maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

View of Mount Fuji from Otometoge, Japan
View of Mount Fuji from Otometoge (Otome Toge), Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Ruined brick tower India with bamboo scaffolding
Vintage 19th century photograph: ruined brick tower India with bamboo scaffolding

c. 1880s Japan - view in a bamboo grove

Giant bamboo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c. 1880 s
Giant bamboo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c.1880 s

Giant bamboo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Giant bamboo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

c. 1880s Japan - bamboo grove
c.1880s Japan - bamboo grove

Bamboo grove at Negishi, Yokohama, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata
Wild date palm or Senegal date palm, Phoenix reclinata (Spiny date palm, Phoenix spinosa). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden

A floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River
Man and donkeys and other porters with sacks on their heads cross a floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River. View of a a bridge over the Ba-Fing or Black River

Weapons and musical instruments of Senegambia, 18th century
Weapons, musical instrument and pipe of Senegambia, 18th century. Bow, powder horn, lance, quiver, arrow, boot, guitar and tobacco pipe

Japanese flower arrangement with chrysanthemum and plum, eigiku and ume. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Japanese flower arrangement with bamboo and plum, take and ume. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Bamboo pipe
Advertising image depicting a smokers bamboo pipe and a pot of tobacco. German. Date: circa 1925

Advert, The Bamboo Cycle Co Ltd
Advert for The Bamboo Cycle Co Ltd, Holborn Viaduct, London EC. 1897

Grasses and grains including wheat, barley, oats, rice, corn, maize, papyrus, sugar, sorghum, bamboo, waterlily, etc. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History

Amazon bamboo rat, Dactylomys dactylinus (Long-toed spinous rat, Echimys dactylinus). From a specimen in Berlin Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Col

Long-toed spiny rat, Dactylomys dactylinus
Long-toed spinous or spiny rat, Amazon bamboo rat, Dactylomys dactylinus, (Echimys dactylinus? Geoff.) From a specimen in Berlin Museum

Method of cutting paper material in China (after a Chinese illustration). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Corals and seaweeds
Precious coral, Corallium rubrum 1, fused ivory tree coral, Oculina varicosa 2, bamboo coral, Isis hippuris 3, and bryozoan, Flustra foliacea 4

Bamboo fungus, scarab beetles and wombat
Bamboo fungus, Phallus indusiatus 1, scarab dung beetles, Coprophanaeus ensifer 2 and Diabroctis mimas 3, and common wombat, Vombatus ursinus 4. Phallus, phanee, phascolome

Giant thorny bamboo and banana tree with fruit
Giant thorny bamboo plant, Bambusa bambos (Bambos arundinacea) and banana tree with fruit and cross section, Musa paradisiaca. Bambou, bananier

Bamboo lily or sasayuri hybrid, Lilium japonicum (Lilium krameri). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Dwarf whitestripe bamboo, Pleioblastus fortunei (Bambusa fortunei). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, Kanem-Bornu
Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, 19th century. Visitors sit 100 paces away from the sultan who views them from inside a bamboo cage

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