Showing posts with label 1900-1948. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1900-1948. Show all posts
Sunday, October 5, 2014
A Native girl in traditional dress stands holding a parasol and smoking a cheroot with two other girls crouching next to her, c.1906
A Native girl in traditional dress stands
holding a parasol and smoking a cheroot with two other girls crouching
next to her, c.1906
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦး (1920s-1940s ခုႏွစ္မ်ား
ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦး (1920s-1940s ခုႏွစ္မ်ား)
A Burmese girl. (Aye Mi San) 1920s-1940s
She could be a mix Burmese.
A Burmese girl. (Aye Mi San) 1920s-1940s
She could be a mix Burmese.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Supayalat (the Northern Palace Queen Thiri Pawara Tiloka Mingala Maha Yadada Dewi)
88 years old today - 24 November 1925: Queen Supayalat (the Northern
Palace Queen Thiri Pawara Tiloka Mingala Maha Yadada Dewi) died of heart
attack aged 65 after a short illness at her home in Churchill Road,
Rangoon. After being exiled in 1885 she had been allowed to return to
Burma (but not Mandalay) in 1919 after the death of her husband King
Thibaw.
British authorities refused the royal family's wish to have her buried at Mandalay and she was instead buried at the Cantonment Gardens. Her funeral on 17 December - the last royal funeral in Burma - was nevertheless a grand affair and was overseen by the Sawbwa of Yawnghwe. Over a hundred thousand people (more than a fifth of the city) watched the procession towards the Shwedagon, her coffin was shaded by eight white umbrellas and the governor himself, Sir Harcourt Butler, accompanied the cortege on horseback.
British authorities refused the royal family's wish to have her buried at Mandalay and she was instead buried at the Cantonment Gardens. Her funeral on 17 December - the last royal funeral in Burma - was nevertheless a grand affair and was overseen by the Sawbwa of Yawnghwe. Over a hundred thousand people (more than a fifth of the city) watched the procession towards the Shwedagon, her coffin was shaded by eight white umbrellas and the governor himself, Sir Harcourt Butler, accompanied the cortege on horseback.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
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