Handmade, Painted Book "Tribes of the Shan States"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1955 to 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Shontz
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Shontz
notes: label: Notes
content: Accordion-folded book, made from heavy handmade paper. Each page hand-painted with portrait of a person standing or walking, in native costume, with the name of their ethnic group written at the top of the page. Cover says: "Tribes of the Shan States by Mg. Po Saw, Taunggyi, 1955".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Burma (Myanmar), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Burmese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2051873
label: USNM Number
content: E433207-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 18 cm
label: Width
content: 11 cm
label: Height
content: 2 cm