Burmese dancers, Myanmar, s.d.

Burmese women dancing at festival.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma" compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.本数据集包含的样本为节日中起舞的缅甸妇女。该数据集源自一套题为《缅甸王国》的玻璃幻灯片（lantern slides），由弗兰克·E·斯金纳牧师编纂。斯金纳于1916年至1930年间，在隶属于卫斯理循道会传教协会（Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society）的缅甸传教团担任传教士。卫斯理循道会在缅甸的传教事业始于1886年英国吞并上缅甸之后不久。首批传教士为W·里普利·温斯顿与阿瑟·H·贝斯托尔，二人于1887至1888年间在曼德勒建立传教站。由于当地根深蒂固的佛教信仰，该传教事业进展缓慢。不过，传教士仍于1890年在曼德勒建成麻风病患者收容所，并最终在巴谷库、皎色和蒙育瓦设立传教站。此外，传教工作还在掸邦山区的敦人（Taungthus）族群中开展。