The embroidered garment is comparable to the richly decorated garments reserved in the late nineteenth century for the royal Burmese family in Mandalay.
The photograph is taken from an album dedicated in the main to Lord Elgin's tour of Burma in late 1898. Lord Elgin was the viceroy of India between 1894 and 1899.
British Library online catalogue (retrieved 4th June 2016).
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