88 years old today - 24 November 1925: Queen Supayalat (the Northern
Palace Queen Thiri Pawara Tiloka Mingala Maha Yadada Dewi) died of heart
attack aged 65 after a short illness at her home in Churchill Road,
Rangoon. After being exiled in 1885 she had been allowed to return to
Burma (but not Mandalay) in 1919 after the death of her husband King
Thibaw.
British authorities refused the royal family's wish to
have her buried at Mandalay and she was instead buried at the Cantonment
Gardens. Her funeral on 17 December - the last royal funeral in Burma -
was nevertheless a grand affair and was overseen by the Sawbwa of
Yawnghwe. Over a hundred thousand people (more than a fifth of the
city) watched the procession towards the Shwedagon, her coffin was
shaded by eight white umbrellas and the governor himself, Sir Harcourt
Butler, accompanied the cortege on horseback.
သူမ ေရခပ္သြား(၁၉၁၀)`` ....The Country Girl; Burma(1910)
She could be a mix Burmese.
ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦး (1920s-1940s ခုႏွစ္မ်ား)
A Burmese girl. (Aye Mi San) 1920s-1940s
She could be a mix Burmese.
A Native girl in traditional dress stands
holding a parasol and smoking a cheroot with two other girls crouching
next to her, c.1906
