Shan women planting a field of paddy at Yaunghwe, Federated Shan States [today’s Shan State]. Every plant is transplanted by hand. The American lady in the background is Miss Mary E. Phillips, American Baptist missionary from Rangoon. April 27, 1927. More

Fig. 5. The United States–Japan Security Treaty Protest, May 20 (1960), by Hiroshi Hamaya, gelatin silver print, © Keisuke Katano, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. More

Fig. 6. The United States–Japan Security Treaty Protest, May 26 (1960), by Hiroshi Hamaya, gelatin silver print, © Keisuke Katano, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. More

Funeral procession of the Sawbwa of Yaunghwe, in Yaunghwe, Federated Shan States [today’s Shan State]. The royal funeral car, bearing the Sawbwa's body. March 3, 1927. More

Four girls from the American Baptist Mission Karen Mission School in Daingwunkwin, Moulmein [Mon State], leaving Pa-an [Karen State] for a 20-mile bullock cart ride to Mowko [village]. February 3, 1922. More

A Pa-Oh man threshing wheat by hand, at a threshing floor near Loikong, Federated Shan States [today’s Shan State]. Note the pile of wheat and chaff under the threshing table, and the unthreshed bundles. March 4, 1927. More

Figure 4. Two Jewish settlers milk a cow. Zoltan Kluger, 1942. Photograph courtesy of Israel State Archives. More

Figure 7. Jewish settlers dance the Hora Agadati, an early Hebrew folk dance. Zoltan Kluger, 1945. Courtesy of the Israel State Archives. More

Sainbaung Chin women and children in native garb, at Ainbu Ywathit (the new Ainbu village), in Kyaukphyu District [Arakan State]. Note the carrying slings for infants. December 24, 1935. More

Fig. 5. Frank Matsura, Chiliwhist Jim , ca. 1910. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-14-09), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More

Fig. 3. Frank Matsura, Matsura in Clown Costumes , ca. 1908. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-01-02), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More

Fig. 1. Frank Matsura, Matsura and Susan Timento Pose at Studio , ca. 1912. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-01-99), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More

Fig. 2. Frank Matsura, Matsura and Norma Dillabough Studio Portraits , ca. 1910. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-01-21), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More

to family snaps, feature in a vibrant political re-routing. The mobilisation of personal and official photographs within spaces of defiant commemoration where the state’s unease about Tamil nationalism endures, as well as spaces of protest have underscored the state’s prevarications on reconciliation More

Fig. 9. Frank Matsura, Matsura, Cecil Jim, and Young Men Pose for Portraits at Matsura’s Studio , ca. 1910. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-19-69), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More

Fig. 4. Frank Matsura, Matsura with Orril Gard and Mathilda Schaller at His Studio and Gallery During the Christmas Rush , 1910. Frank Matsura Photographs (35-01-95), Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries. More