1929 Photogravure Leg Rower Inle Lake Burma Myanmar Intha People Boat Rowing

This is an original 1929 photogravure of an Intha leg-rower on a lake in Burma (Myanmar). The caption underneath the photogravure labels the body of water as the Bailu river; however, based on the location of the Intha people, we are assuming the photograph was instead taken on Inle Lake. The fishermen of the area are known for wrapping one leg around the oar to row. The photographer of this image is Dr. Martin Hürlimann of Berlin, Germany. His photographs were largely composed of cities and civilizations, and taken mostly with a Sinclair camera. Period Paper is pleased to offer an exceptional collection of historic original photogravures of the landscape, architecture, and people of Ceylon and Indochina including the present-day countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, and Yunnan, a Province of southwestern China. The actual border around the photogravure is larger than what is shown in the digital image, and each image usually has a caption in German, English,