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Description: | Photograph of a Burmese woman, taken by Watts and Skeen in the 1890s, from the Curzon Collection. In this studio portrait the unknown sitter is dressed in a traditional costume consisting of a woven silk wrap-around skirt known as a hta-mein, with a loose wide-sleeved jacket. She wears flowers in her hair, is richly adorned with jewellery and is posed holding a parasol. The independence and social freedom of Burmese women was remarked on by many European visitors. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Watts and Skeen | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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