This portrait shows a Karen woman and two children in traditional embroidered dress inside a bamboo house, photographed as part of a collection documenting Karen communities of the Burma (China-Burma-India) theater. The Karen, many of whom practiced Christianity following 19th-century American Baptist missionary work, played a notable role as Allied guerrilla allies against Japanese forces during World War II. Images such as this one, labeled from a Karen church service, document the intersection of indigenous culture, faith, and the wartime and postwar history of the region. Project: 218032