Maingtha Old Woman

ca.1920

Figure of an old woman, half-length facing three-quarters left. She wears a white turban, silver earplugs, necklace of beads and a silver neck-ornament (similar to a kind of torque); also a pale grey tunic ornamented with a blue stripe with a yellow one on each side which borders the tunic and also runs horizontally from shoulder to shoulder; she seems to have a black sash and a black patch on her right upper arm. Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects.