[Mounted on black card with caption in white ink:] "Red Karen Women with fibre pads on legs. Sn. Shan states Burma". [Back of photo cannot be read because image is glued to mount. Emslie Horniman mentions "Red Karin" women in his list of specimens acquired in Burma in 1927:] "Cane (Ratan?) [sic] cord used to bind round womens calves, see photograph. Red Karin - Festival Market, Pindaya, S.S.S." [see Horniman Museum accession #27.235, cane cord from Burma]
2 women with light coloured sashes around waist and coils around knees
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Photograph of the Natural History Gallery from the balcony, circa 1912
object | ARC/HMG/PH/NHG/MBP15A
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Black and white negative of wooden building among trees with boat masts in distance
object | ARC/GUP/005/008
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Biography of George Dennis Ratcliffe by Dick Hill
object | ARC/RAT/022
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object | ARC/HAR/003/013
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