Burma image, WA0050. Three old Nung women, hair in front. P.R. Photograph taken by James Henry Green in Kachin Land, Burma (Myanmar). It was taken in the 1920s. The Mother's meeting' "I don't just know what is coming over the younger generation". " Just look at those girls actually wearing jackets." " Thank goodness we never did that sort of thing when we were girls." Old Nung women from near the source of the Irrawaddy. (Caption from the Rangoon Gazette Pictorial Supplement) *****Many of the images in the Green Collection suggest the process of change and adaptation that 'traditional' costume was perceived to be undergoing in the 1920s. Here, three women are seen wearing the plain hemp clothes that Green believed was the 'traditional' Nung women's costume. The hair of married women would typically be tied in a knot at the front, whilst the hair of unmarried girls was generally bobbed and fringed.
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