Film footage of a procession with he royal Kammu (Khmu') guards carrying a sapling of the Bodhi tree given to Crown Prince
Savang Vatthana by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru upon the former's visit to India.
Additional photographs of these events can be found within the Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection at the University
of Wisconsin.
- Place
- Laos
- Extent
- 1 film (2 min., 50 sec.)
- Language
- English
- Subject(s)
- Anthropology--Laos
- Ethnology--Laos
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--Laos
- Rites and ceremonies--Laos
- Elephants--Laos
- Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky
- Louangphrabang (Laos)--Description and travel
- Khmu’ (Southeast Asian people)--Laos
- Crowds--Laos
- Royalty--Laos
- United States Information Service (Viangchan, Laos)
- United States Operations Mission to Laos
- Parades--Laos
- Genre
- Motion pictures (visual work)
- Rights
- All rights for this image are held by Joel M. Halpern. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should
be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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- Cite as:
- Halpern, Joel Martin. Procession with bodhi tree, ca. 1957. Joel M. Halpern Papers (FS 001). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
- Location
- Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
- FS 001
- Identifier
- mufs001-ls-film-i002
- Permalink
- http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mufs001-ls-film-i002