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Myanmar (Burma) photogalleries and articles

Most of the photo galleries below have been developed from a vist to Myanmar (Burma) at the end of August/beginning of September 1998 which included Yangon, Mandalay and, in Shan State, Kalaw and Lake Inle.  Originally it had been hoped to go to Kentung, near the border with Thailand. Unfortunately air travel to Kentung was banned for foreigners immediately before the planned visit following an air crash and a subsequent attack by local insurgents on the crashed aircraft, passengers and crew .  

The visit was focused primarily on the minority ethnic groups and traditional textile-related skills.  It produced photos of the Palaung, Pa-O and Padaung minorities as well as several of the Shan - one of the larger ethnic groups in Myanmar - engaged in spinning, dyeing and weaving.  In addition, a stay on Lake Inle, produced some shots of the Intha fishermen, renowned for their 'leg-rowing' technique of managing their boats and leaving both hands free to deal with their basket-like fishing nets. The area is a weaving area with both Shan and Intha still working their looms.

It is impossible to visit Myanmar without being aware that it is an intrinsically Buddhist country full of temples and monasteries and that being a monk (or a nun) even if for only a short period of one's live is an integral part of the culture.  

In addition there are a couple of photogalleries of textiles from Myanmar drawn from posts on the www.tribaltextiles.info/community forum.

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Amarapura indigo dyers, Shan State

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A gallery of photos taken on 2 September 1998 in Amarapura, Shan State, Myanmar of a family of dyers who were dying hanks of cotton in chemical indigo dye.  Amarapura is 11Km south of Mandalay and is a centre of silk and cotton weaving.  The family had been dyers for several generations.  For a description of the dying process which is captured by the photos click here or follow the same link from the photogallery.

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Padaung

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A gallery of three sets of Padaung photos.  The first, taken in December 1988, is of three Padaung women living as a tourist attraction near Mae Hong Son in the north of Thailand on the border with Kayah State in Myanmar.  The second set, taken in September 1998, is of two Padaung women in Kalaw market, Shan State, Myanmar with their neck rings discretely covered with shawls.  The third set of photos, also taken in September 1998, is of two Padaung women again living as a tourist attraction in 'traditional' houses at a hotel on the edge of Lake Inle, Shan State, Myanmar. 

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Silver Palaung - Kalaw market, Shan State

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A gallery of photos of Silver Palaung taken at the five day market being held in Kalaw market, southwestern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) in September 1998. For a description of Silver Palaung clothing click here or follow the same link from the photogallery.

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Silver Palaung - Pein Ne Bin village, Kalaw, Shan State

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A gallery of photos of Silver Palaung taken in Pein Ne Bin village near Kalaw southwestern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) in September 1998 at the time of the 'Full Moon day' festival in September 1998. For a description of Silver Palaung clothing click here or follow the same link from the photogallery.

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Pa'O - Kalaw market, Shan State

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A gallery of photos of Pa'O taken at the five day market being held in Kalaw market, southwestern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) in September 1998. For a description of Pa'O clothing click here or follow the same link from the photogallery.

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Pa'O - Lake Inle, Shan State

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A gallery of photos of Pa'O taken at Nampan, Ywama and Phaung Daw U pagoda on and around Lake Inle, southwestern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) in September 1998. For a description of Pa'O clothing click here or follow the same link from the photogallery.

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Nga Phe Kyaung monastery, Lake Inle, Shan State

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A gallery of photos taken on 7 September 1998 at Nge Phe Kyaung monastery on an island in Lake Inle, Shan State. This is an attractive wooden monastery built at the end of the 1850s on stilts over the lake.  The monks have taught a few of the many cats living with them to jump through hoops.  It is for this reason - following a request for photos of the jumping cats - that this photo gallery has been assembled from a few photos of the monastery, monks and cats.

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Intha weaving - Lake Inle, Shan State

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A gallery of photos of Intha weavers taken on 6, 7 and 8 September 1998 at Innbawkon and Ywama on Lake Inle, Shan State. It shows the processes in the preparation and weaving of weft ikat-patterned silk lon-gyi, which are called Zin me, the Burmese word for Chiangmai; weaving Shan bags and also cloth for Bhuddish monks' clothing. Click here to go to description of Intha weaving.

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Intha on the water - Lake Inle, Shan State
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A gallery of photos of Lake Inle and the Intha on the water between 6-9 September 1998. The Inthas are famous for their very individual rowing technique and floating gardens unique to the area.

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Khami, Khumi, Mru and Zantu, southern Chin groups - Bangladesh and Myanmar

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Photos of some textiles from some southern Chin groups from the Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma) border area which have been shared via the tribaltextiles.info forum as members have sought to assemble hard-to-find information.

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Kachin (Jingpho, Jinghphaw, Singpo) bags - Myanmar and north-east India

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A small photogallery of Kachin (Jingpho, Jinghphaw, Singpo) woven bags created around the photos posted on a fascinating thread 'a puzzling bag' on the www.tribatltextiles.info/community forum which attracted contributions from forum members around the world culminating in an identification of the bag as Kachin, probably Jingpho (Jinghphaw, Singpo) and further photos of similar, beautifully woven bags. This small photogallery is an attempt to bring the photographic gems together for comparison and study. top

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