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Description: | Lakher Pioneer Mission fundraising map. Large rectangular white cotton sheet, turned over and hemmed top and bottom, with a strip of cloth stitched on in each top corner (probably for suspension), one side reinforced with a safety pin. The cloth drawn and lettered with a map of South-Asia: the coast outline and lettering in black, the sea painted blue, the main heading underlined in red, and an area around what is now the Indo-Myanmar (Burma) border painted red. This red area is named `LAKHER- LAND’. The map is headed:`LAKHER PIONEER MISSION
FOUNDED 1905’. At the foot of the map is written:`£1000 URGENTLY NEEDED TO CLAIM THIS LAND FOR CHRIST.’
Place names on the map: INDIA, BURMA, ASSAM, CEYLON. BOMBAY, MADRAS, COLOMBO, CALUTTA, RANGOON, BAY OF BENGAL. The north-east area of map is more detailed showing: Chittagong, Akyab, Arrakan, Lungleh, the Kolodyne River, and Sheakor in Lakher-Land. 1205 x 930. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | Southeast Asian Peoples cloth metal maps paint posters Mara textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-123379 |
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