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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

  1. Javanese carrying load on yoke. Annotated "W4. Native carrying his wares to market. The Javanese are clever craftsman"

  2. man plowing paddy with two oxen. Annotated "W10. Javanese ploughing with primitive single furrow wooden plough"

  3. detail of ancient monument. Annotated "W11. One of 432 effigies of Buddha on the terraces of Boroboduer. This hugh Hindu momument was erected to the memory of Buddha and is said to contain some of his ashes. It stands on a base 534 ft sq and has 9 terraces and 4 sculptured galleries containing 3 miles of Bas Reliefs illustrating the life of Buddha. (To see Java and not see Boroboduer = visiting Egypt without seeing the pyramids)"

  4. ancient monument detail. Annotated "W12. Bas Relief illustrating life of Buddha. Buddha being nourished by his mother"

  5. ancient monument detail. Annoated "W13. Buddha as a young man"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/65/6 A-E
Date Range:  1923  -  1929
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02