The Snapshots in Time Collection
Elderly Folk Musician with Traditional Bowed Instrument, Burma-India Border Region, 1944-45
An elderly musician plays a traditional bowed instrument in the Burma-India border region, photographed in 1944-45 by an American serviceman stationed in the China-Burma-India Theater. Images like this preserve a record of local culture encountered by U.S. personnel far from the front lines of World War II. Project: 218040