Bamboo Collection (page 4)

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

Bamboo yards, Kyobashi. 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

Goro pulling up bamboo. Print shows a man, possibly Tokimune Soga (Goro), uprooting bamboo. Date 1712, printed later

Group of street musicians and actors in front of a building with reed or bamboo blinds. Date ca. 1877

Bamboo shoots. Date between 1830 and 1850

A young Farmers boy taking a pig to market
A young Farmers boy taking a pig (in a basket!) to market on a basic wheelbarrow - Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1904

Rock & bamboo in garden Rock & bamboo in garden
Rock & bamboo in garden. Drawing shows bamboo and rocks. Date 1878 Dec

Tonkin, North Vietnam - Quang Yen - Militia Date: circa 1920s

Sri Lanka - Giant Bamboo Plants
Giant Bamboo Plants at the Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya, close to the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Date: 1932

Sri Lanka - Fruit Seller
A Fruit Shop in Sri Lanka Date: 1932

Garden with bamboo
An unidentified garden with bamboo (Phyllostachys, of the Poaceae family) growing on either side of a curving pathway

Water Carriers from Darjeeling, India
Water Carriers (children) Darjeeling, India carrying large cut bamboo stalks carried by straps attached to their foreheads

Cairo, Egypt - Sweet seller
A sweet seller in Cairo, Egypt. He uses a small set of hand scales to measure out a quantity of some delectable confectionary

Firewood Carrier - Japan
An old man carries two very large and very neat bundles of firewood on a yolk, Japan

Songbird and Mount Fuji
A colourful songbird perched amid the bamboo blossoms in this fantasy Japanese landscape painting by Malcolm Greensmith. The distinctive peak of Mount Fuji dominates the horizon

Indian cavalry preparing to charge
A line of Indian cavalrymen, armed with bamboo lances, are pictured preparing to charge German positions in the French woods of Foureaux

Borneo / Dyak Drying Heads
The Dyak method of drying heads. The enemys head is cut off, the brains scooped out before being hung (as shown) on a rod of bamboo

Chinese Ferryman
A Chinese ferryman aboard his vessel, with a large mounted gong and hammer to alert passengers to his imminent departure or perhaps to other boats to warn of his passage

Bamboo Cultivation
Bamboo is cultivated throughout Asia : the young shoots are edible, while the mature stalks have countless uses - building, piping and holding up garden plants

Borneo General View
General view in the country of the Western Dyaks : an elegant bamboo bridge spans the river

Bamboo as Symbol
To the Chinese, the BAMBOO plant is a symbol of peace and good health

Exploring Bamboo Jungle
An explorer hacking his way through a bamboo jungle in Burma

Madagascar Water
Madagascar. - Women water- carriers, some using pots others hollowed bamboo trunks

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