Item 08: Postcards and photographs of cities and towns in China, S-Z, ca. 191-? / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison

George Ernest Morrison collection, 1738-1935

Shanghai
87 postcards (pp. 1-29) 

Szemao
34 photographs (pp. 32-65)
p.32. The Mekong at Kenghung.
p.33. Women mourners in funeral procession at Szemao.
p.34. Men of “Yao” tribe: photo taken near I. pang [I Bang], Chinese Shan States.
p.35. “Meeting the Spring” festival. Silk flags carried in procession at Szemao.
p.36. The Great “Bawd Budd” Chinese-Shan Temple. Hole in breast made by Chinese thieves, in hope of getting any gold or precious stones put inside idol by the Shan priests. 
p.37. Horse-thief in cage (chan-lung) at Szemao. Note Tibetans in the background.
p.38. “Noria” or waterwheel at work: photo taken at Meng-Hai, west of Kenghung.
p.39. [image is missing]
p.40. Notables of Szemao city carrying idol in procession.
p.41. Shan girls at play: P’ut’eng (Meng Hing), south of Szemao. [“Pa-I” Shans playing at the love-game of throwing coloured balls]
p.42. Caravan ponies crossing the NamLam River: Burma-Yunnan frontier.
p.43. “Black” Shans. Village near Mekong: Chinese Shan States. [“He Pa-I” or Black-skirted Shans]
p.44. “Chia Kaura” girl in gala costume: village west of the Mekong: Chinese Shan States. 
p.45. Typical Yunnan Bridge: Szemao Western onburbo. 
p.46. Ferry on the Mekong at Kenghung.
p.47. Wild Wa Women: in the Menglien (Muong Len) market: Burma-Yunnan frontier. 
p.48. Akk’a woman and primitive loom: Chinese Shan States. 
p.49. Yunnanese Village girls: market at Szemao.
p.50. Pack mules of Yunnan: a part of Szemao city wall
p.51. “Yao” women: Tonkin-Yunnan frontier.  (scene: market street, I Wu)
p.52. “Hsiang Tan” Lolos of the Chinese Shan States [I Wu].
p.53. Akka woman: Ping-t’ou, or Level head, variety. Chinese Shan States.
p.54. Shans of Meng Lang, near Szemao. 
p.55. “Hua Yao Pa I”: Shan girls of Hsaio Meng Yang, near Kenghung.
p.56. Tibetans at Szemao. (Dr Augustine Henry stooping in background)
p.57. Iron suspension bridge, near Talang: South West Yunnan.
p.58. Shan Temple at Meng Lang: between Szemao and the Mekong. [Chen Le-Pa]
p.59. Wild Wa men in the market at Menglien (Muong Len) Burma-Yunnan frontier. 
p.60. Simple contrivance for hulling grain, used in the Chinese Shan States. [A rice-skinner]
p.61. Simple contrivance for hulling grain, used in the Chinese Shan States. [A rice-skinner]
p.62. Shan House: Yunnan-Tonkin frontier. 
p.63. Legs! Mahe women of Szemao watching the performers at the military examination. Note: those wearing aprons are married: queue is altered on birth of first child. 
p.64. My Lady the elephant and her offspring – belonging to the T’ussu of Liu shun (ie Saobwa of Meng Pang, near Szemao) – pay a ceremonial visit to Szemao. 
p.65. My Lady the Elephant (Property of T’ussu of Menglien, ie Saobwa of Muong Len)

Tientsin
30 postcards (pp. 68-81)

Yangtze River 
12 photographs (pp. 83-86)

Yunnan City
12 photographs (pp. 88-99)
p.88. View in Yunnan city
p.89. View in Yunnan city
p.90. The Pagoda of Yunnan city 250 ft high
p.91. Residence of Wong the banker in Yunnan city
p.92. The Big East Gate of Yunnan city
p.93. Soldiers on the wall of Yunnan city
p.94. The Mission of the missions of Etrangeres de Paris Yunnan city
p.95. Confucian temple in Yunnan city
p.96. View in Yunnan city
p.97. Memorial in temple of the Goddess of Mercy near Talifu
p.98. Temple near Yunnan city
p.99. The Telegraph offices in Yunnan city

Yunnan Province
30 postcards (pp. 101-110)
Voyage de M. Beau, Gouverneur general de l'Indo-Chine au Yunam.

Miscellaneous
59 postcards and 33 photographs (pp. 112-148)

Chihli (6 postcards), Sungkiang (7 postcards), Soochow (5 postcards), Nanking (10 postcards), Kiangse (4 postcards), Hankow (6 postcards and 2 photographs), Ichang (1 postcard and 24 photograph), Mission Warocque (20 postcards) & Port Arthur (7 photographs).

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