Folds 1-4 : Queen watching ploughing ceremony. King watching ? archery/polo.[description text is cutoff in the dropdown menu]. This image is spliced from
a dozen zoom screencaps so it's a reasonable size if you click on it. I didn't
splice any of the other main pages but some of the details have been both
(or either) spliced and cleaned up in the background.
Folds 5-8. King and queen watching Burmese football.
Folds 9-12: Procession
Folds 13-16: Procession continued
Folds 17-20: Game with elephants in enclosure
This is a 19th century burmese parabeik - a folded concertina picture book usually made of palm leaves - with watercolour illustrations of sporting and cultural activites viewed by royalty. It is listed online as 'Parabeik illustrating royal pastimes' among the wonderful 'Seeing is Believing: Traditional and Colonial Images of Popular Culture' section of the Oxford Digital Library.
2 comments :
these are wonderful. love the elephants especially!
WOW.....how ROYAL is that?! :D
I miss those olden Golden days....reminds me of all we used to be....
(sigh)....
:)
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