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1880s
"Sin Kho Ma Lay"
people Queen Supayalat Yanaung Prince Maung Maung Toke
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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