Myanmar Collection (page 9)

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - house and garden Date: 1951

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

Kamayut fire walking festival - Rangoon - Down the centre is a shallow pit about 20 feet long, 4 feet wide of glowing charcoal fire

Indian temple - Rangoon - near Kamayut Date: 1952

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

Peace Pagoda Parade - Rangoon

Thankin Nus Peace Pagoda - Rangoon - Peace Pagoda being built (U Nu - President of Burma at the time). It is a different style from the usual bell shaped ones that cannot be entered

Bougainvilla - Rangoon - at Kalaw Date: 1952

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

Cannas - Rangoon - in Mount Pleasant garden Date: 1952

Water hyacinths in paddy field - Rangoon - Water hyacinths in paddy field Date: 1952

Cantonment Gardens - Rangoon - Cantonment Gardens Date: 1952

Palm patterns - Rangoon - Fishtail palm easy to transplant. Toddy Palmyra Tau fan shaped frond. Coconut palm long feathery frond. Date: 1952

Cassia tree - Rangoon

Pink cassia - Rangoon - deep apple blossom, pea family leaf Date: 1952

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

Mu tree - Rangoon - Mu Tree Date: 1952

Indian laburnum - Rangoon - ngu yellow wisteria style blossom. Date: 1952

Frangipani - Rangoon - tayak sigah - From China, evergreen kind prettiest. Cuttings transplant easily in rainy season. Date: 1952

Rusty shield bearer - Rangoon - deep gold yellow, tight clustered blossoms, pea family Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana Date: 1952

Twante Canal - Rangoon

Twnate Canal - Rangoon - We stopped at the official tollhouse and our junior officer captain had chairs and tables set out for our tea under a huge Ginko tree

Pazundaung Creek - Rangoon - Pazundaung Creek Date: 1952

Irawaddy River - Rangoon - teak basin Date: 1952

Bashas near cantonement grounds - Rangoon - Bashas near cantonement grounds Date: 1952

Buffalo bath - Rangoon - We stared at great black water buffalo, staring at us from their cool wallow in the mud. Date: 1952

Rice - thatch making - Rangoon Date: 1952

Buffalo family - Rangoon - near Kyiakausan Date: 1952

Rice - paddy straw gleaners - Rangoon

Rice - granary - Rangoon - on Mandalay Road Date: 1952

Rice - paddy sifting near Kyiakausan - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Rice - Kokine, paddy plough - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy threshing - Rangoon - Three white bullocks with a driver walked in a never-ending circle, around and around on the piled paddy, walking the grains out

Rice - paddy workers stacking ricks - Rangoon - They were still in process of cutting and piling and preparing threshing floors for the stacked paddy bundles. Date: 1952

Rice - paddy workers basha - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy fields - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - paddy workers - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - transplanting paddy - Rangoon Date: 1952

Rice - pulling paddy seedlings - Rangoon Date: 1952

Parasol making - Rangoon - Every basha hut along Thi Daing (Parasol Road) is a little factory in one phase of parasol making

Brick making kilns - Rangoon -.. before firing. Date: 1952

Brick making hand shaping - Rangoon - then at tables under a thatched sun shelter, teams of three shape and press it into metal moulds, some children aged 12 (but look more like 8)

Brick making buffalo mill to soften clay - Rangoon -. to pour into a super meat grinder with bullocks going round and round to squeeze it into a malleable mass... Date: 1952

Brick making clay pit - Rangoon - Deep clay pits with sweating Indians carrying up baskets of the rich clay on their heads, . Date: 1952

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