Burmese Woman, Mandalay 1906



This is a picture taken as a part of the royal visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the Indian Subcontinent in 1905/6. This picture is of a Burmese Girl in Mandalay. She wears heavy make-up reminiscent of a Japanese Geisha girl.


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