Burmese youth Annamese hill tribesmen
Relief from Angkor Wat, 12th C.
Burmese forge, circa 1900 Burmese forge, circa 1930
Contemporary Thai forge (Aranyik) (Copyright © Antonio Conceicao, Jr., 2004)
Hue (Vietnam), Chief of the Royal Guard with escort
Members of the Kachin Rangers, WW II
Kachin villager, circa 1943 Shan? Clothing appears Kachin
Burmese marionettes. King (left), Warrior (right)
Shan warrior Shan man
(from Colquhoun, "Across Chryse'," 1883) (National Geographic Magazine) Chin Elders
Ceramic tile depicting demons in Mara's army, Shwegugyi Temple, Burma (c. 1476) (photo by B.I.)
Kachin (c.1886) (by Lt. Col. W.W. Hooper), Hulton-Deutsch Collection
Festival of the Spirits, Taungbyon, Burma. Man in prayer (left); Minister of the Nats (right) (Copyright © Chris Lisle/CORBIS)
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