Tuesday, 6 June 2023

D.A. Ahuja, Rangoon (Burma) - Burmese at Football


1900's
Burmese at Football
D.A. Ahuja, Rangoon
Burma
1 postcard

It's not actually football but an ancient Burmese ball game called chinlone. Wikipedia has a black and white version of this photo on their website and indicates that it is "one of the first photographs of men playing chinlone, taken around 1899".

387.  Burmese at Football, Rangoon

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