Boys playing Chinlon, Myanmar, s.d.

Description

"A curious sport." Chinlon is a traditional game in Myanmar. Up to six players have to keep a rattan ball in the air for as long as possible.
From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.

Title:

Record ID:

impa-m10105

Names & Dates

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Sport , ball games , Methodist Missionary Society

Place:

[countries] Myanmar

Relationships

Part Of:

[repository] School of Oriental and African Studies
[collection] Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
[series] Methodist Missionary Society

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

photographs

Previous Formats:

Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.

Access

Rights:

[owner] Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

Repository:

University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
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Ordering:

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Identifiers

Record ID:

impa-m10105

Source:

[record id] SOAS/MMS/BU/LS/5720