Spent Brothers Productions
Images of Burma 1998

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MAJOR NAT FESTIVAL IN VILLAGE NORTH OF MANDALAY
Nats are local spirits that inhabit natural features which must be appeased
with ceremonies by shamans (often male transvestite priests)

Nat festival  Nat festival

Nat festival  Nat festival
Right: Images representing the Nats

Nat festival   Nat festival

Nat festival

AROUND MANDALAY

Lady with large cigar  Boat on Ayerwaddy River
Lady with huge cheroot & girl wearing traditional face painting of thanakha paste
favoured by many women in Burma as sunscreen & beauty aid / Boat on Ayerwaddy River

Kaunghmudaw Paya   Oxcarts
Sheila at Kaunghmudaw Paya, Mingon / Oxcarts

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Photographs © Derek & Sheila Henderson 1998  2008