Burma image, WA0242

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Burma image, WA0242. This monochrome photographic print is showing a Kachin Dumsa (animist priest). A dumsa is a animist priest who could make offering to a variety of nats (spirits). This photograph was taken by James Henry Green in the 1920s, a recruiting officer for the Burma Rifles who spent more than twenty years in Burma, much of it based in the northern hill states.
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Timeline / 1920s
Collections / World Art / Asia / James Henry Green Photos of Burma (Myanmar)
Collections / World Art / Photographs
 
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James Henry Green Charitable Trust
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CC BY-SA
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Burma image, WA0242
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Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
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Burma image; A Kachin Dumsa H & S in full regalia. P.R. Pic.; Myanmar
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30.92 MB; 2794 x 3866 pixels; 237 x 327 mm (print at 300 DPI);
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WA0242
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