Kalaw Collection

Novice Nuns - Kalaw
Kalaw - 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 - Kalaw
On 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

Palaung women - Kalaw

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 - Kalaw
Banana bazaar - Kalaw - Banana Bazaar Date: 1952

paddy terraces - Kalaw
Paddy terraces - Kalaw - Rice paddy terraces on the road to Aungban Date: 1952

Main Street - Kalaw - Main Street Date: 1952

bazaar - Kalaw
Bazaar - Kalaw - Bazaar Date: 1952

bazaar shop - Kalaw
Bazaar shop - Kalaw - Bazaar Shop Date: 1952

Pagoda Ridge - Kalaw - Pagoda Ridge Date: 1952

village from Pagoda ridge - Kalaw
Village from Pagoda ridge - Kalaw - Village from Pagoda Ridge Date: 1952

road to bazaar - Kalaw
Road to bazaar - Kalaw Date: 1952

basha house - Kalaw
Basha 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

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

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

Bougainvilla - Rangoon - at Kalaw Date: 1952

Jacaranda and Deodar trees - Rangoon - on Pagoda Hill, Kalaw Date: 1952

Pink cassia in Kalaw - Rangoon - Pink cassia in Kalaw Date: 1952

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