Bamboo Collection (page 3)

Making Japanese Paper Chochin lanterns - one used as a sign
Making Japanese Paper Chochin lanterns and an example of one being used as a sign. Date: circa 1930s

Philippine Tarsier rests during a day in bamboo undergrowth (Tarsius syrichta). dense secondary tropical rainforest near PTFI (Philippine Tarsier Foundation Incorporated)

Norddeutscher Lloyd poster
A poster for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd which operated out of Bremen in North Germany, advertising travel to the Far East on the express service

Open Sedan Chair - China
Going to a Picnic - Mode of travelling a long journey in China. A European gent is carried by two Chinese porters in a bamboo pole open sedan chair or litter

Angklung players, West Java, Indonesia
Angklung (anklong) players in Garoet (Garut), West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1910

Wellington, New Zealand - Oriental Bay
Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India - A Bamboo Merchant and two young assistants/apprentices (his sons?) stringing a charpoy. A Charpoy is a bed or cot used in India

The Darling of the Gods by David Belasco & John Luther Long
The Darling of the Gods by David Belasco and John Luther Long. The heroine, Princess Yo-San, is in white on the right. The image corresponds to the right hand page of a double-page spread in

A Japanese Geisha girl taking tea in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

British Caribbean man standing on raft on the Rio Grande, Jam
British Caribbean man standing on the raft on the Rio Grande in Jamaica. Jamaican man standing with the bamboo stick further down on the raft. Greenery in the back ground Date: 1976

Poster, Holidays in Greece, Bamboo Village, Vouliagmeni, Athens, departures from Marseilles every week. 20th century

Giant Bamboo, Celyon (Sri Lanka) circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Captured ordnance. Netherlands and Southeast Asia. 17th-19th
Captured ordnance. Netherlands, 1667 and Southeast Asia, c. 1750-1850. Bronze, cane and bamboo. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Rickshaw scene in Hong Kong, China
Rickshaw scene in a street in Hong Kong, China. Date: 1924

Japan - Navigating the rapids of the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Poling rafts along the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Kago Travelling Chair Date: circa 1908

Dyak Longhouse
A very short longhouse, is this Dyak dwelling, set in the jungle on the banks of the Upper Rajang, Sarawak, Malaysia. Date: 1960s

Advert for Maple & Co furniture 1892
Fashionable furniture, from Maple & Co, in Tottenham Court Road. 1892

Christmas card in the form of an oriental folding screen with winter scenes. Date: circa 1890s

Formosan men aboard their boats, similar to large bamboo rafts. Date: 1932

Seminole Club, Miami, Florida, USA, a sports and social club with giant bamboos on the left. Date: circa 1905

Comic scene in Hong Kong, China, showing a British officer in khaki uniform being carried down steep steps by two natives. Date: circa 1908

Scouting patrol leaders on weekend course, Mauritius
Scouting patrol leaders on a weekend course, Mauritius, seen here carrying a scout on a structure made from aloe, a type of bamboo

Indian cavalry preparing for an offensive during World War I
Steel-helmeted and turbaned troopers with bamboo lancers, prepare for a cavalry charge across the German Third Line in the Wood of Foureaux of Bazentin-le-Grand. Date: 1916

Giant bamboo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Brown Derby Restaurant, Hollywood, California, USA
Brown Derby Restaurant, North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 1950

Southern Philippines - Typical Homestead built on stilts. The frame on the right is a shade to offer relief from the sun in the middle of the day (with a covering). Date: circa 1910s

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - decorative
Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - two photographs set within a very decorative surround of bamboo water pipes, swallows and lilies. Date: circa 1910s

Vietnamese Water Carrier - Muong People - Hoa Binh Province
Young Female water carrier (water stored within the thick bamboo canes) of the Muong People from the Hoa Binh Province and the mountainous districts of Thanh Hoa Province in the north of the country

Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam - Clocktower of Cathedral built
St. Francois Xavier Church in Cholon Chinatown, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam under construction - encased in bamboo scaffolding. Date: 1908

Vina - Indian Instrument
Vina - The most ancient on Indian instruments, the great Vina is now generally known as the " Been". The instrument is composed of a bamboo and two gourds and has a peculiarly soft

Trimeresurus albolabris, bamboo pit viper
Photograph of a bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) wrapped around a tree branch

Rhizomys vestitus, bamboo rat
Plate 46 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Dendrocalamus strictus, giant bamboo
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Melocanna baccifera, berry bamboo
Plate 1050 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

entrance to village - Inle Lake
Entrance to village - Inle Lake - A bamboo gate to guard the entrance to village. Little canals winding among homes on stilts, lovely gardens. Date: 1952

floating island villages - Inle Lake
Floating 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

Umbrella bamboo - Rangoon - Thi wa, at Kalaw Date: 1952

Peasant home near Ayuthaya - Thailand - Peasant home Most of the bamboo and frame cottages are built on a mound of fill above the flooded land

Bamboo snake. Print shows a woman and a man looking at a toy snake made out of bamboo. Date 1797

Bamboo. Date between 1830 and 1850

Seven people before a bamboo fence. Print shows seven women portraying the seven sages of the bamboo grove, sitting together with musical instruments (shamisen, koto, and recorder), tobacco pipes

Bamboo yards, Kyo bridge. Print shows pedestrians crossing the Kyo Bridge as a man poles a boat on the river below, with long pieces of bamboo along the bank on the left, and a full moon overhead

Split bamboo screen with silk binding. Drawing shows a split bamboo screen with patterned silk binding, includes hook with cord and tassel. Date 1878?

Bush warbler in bamboo. Print shows two young women on a country path gathering plants and listening to a warbler in bamboo. Date 1770, printed later

Bamboo shoot with plant growing in the background. Date between 1800 and 1860

Parody of the seven sages of the bamboo grove. Print shows seven women portraying the seven sages of the bamboo grove; some with musical instruments (koto and shamisen), one with a scroll

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