File:Family of Saopha of Wuntho.jpg

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English: Photograph of a Sawbwa’s wife and child at Wuntho in Burma (Myanmar) from the Elgin Collection: 'Autumn Tour 1898', taken by Felice Beato in c.1890. The portrait was taken in front of a house at Wuntho, showing the wife and child of the Wuntho Sawbwa, a Shan feudal lord, seated on the ground with food baskets. Attendants are arranged around the pair in a semi-circle and two servants hold umbrellas over the group. The woman wears a striped silk hta-mein (wrap-around skirt), a close-fitting jacket of fine muslin or cotton known as an ein-gyi, and necklaces. During the Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1885), rich jewellery, fine fabrics such as silk, and garments such as her jacket were reserved for court officials and their wives by sumptuary laws. After the fall of the Burmese monarchy they were worn by the wealthy. The photograph is from an album devoted almost entirely to Lord Elgin's Burma tour of November to December 1898. Victor Alexander Bruce (1849-1917), ninth Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine, served as Viceroy of India between 1894 and 1899.
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Source Sawbwa's wife and child. Wuntho, Burma
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Felice Beato  (1832–1909)  wikidata:Q318352
 
Felice Beato
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Felix Beato
Description Italian photographer, journalist, war photographer, photojournalist and architectural photographer
Date of birth/death 1832 (or perhaps as late as 1834) 29 January 1909 (or perhaps as early as 1907)
Location of birth/death Venice, Austria-Hungary Florence, Italy
Work period 19th century
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Yokohama (1863–1877); Istanbul; Myanmar Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q318352

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