Lost Footsteps
Lost Footsteps

Yanaung Prince Maung Maung Toke

"Sin Kho Ma Lay"

This photograph from Mandalay has been identified as the 1880s court dancer and favourite of Queen Supayalat, Ma Shwe Hmyin. She is perhaps better known by her sobriquet "Sin Kho Ma Lay" (or "the little maid carried away on an elephant") after having allegedly been transported on an elephant to the smitten Yanaung Prince (Maung Toke).

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