IDNO

LS.87569.GOS

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Burma. 128.55.
Burma
Snake Charmers.
Goss" [manuscript in ink]

Three men, one standing with a drum (dhol) and one sitting besides another (dhak). The third is playing the flute with one hand and has the lid of the basket carrying the snake in the other. A woman and a girl standing with the men, near a big closed basket. [Description from record N.87548.GOS, JD 01/06/2017]

Place

SE Asia; Myanmar; Yangon [Burma; Rangoon]

Cultural Affliation

Indian; ?Hindu

Named Person

Photographer

?Goss, Louis Allan

Collector / Expedition

Goss, Louis Allan

Date

Collection Name

Goss CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

?Goss (Miss)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The slides were donated in the 1930s.
This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

Related Image: Same image held at the Royal Ontario Museum as a print, ref _1_2016festaff. [AS 15/12/2016]