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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "sample-book",
 "type": "art",
 "names": {
  "name": "The sample book",
  "said": "Burma, 1882 — flash, before the word existed"
 },
 "region": [
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "kind": "object"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1880,
  "to": 1890,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Described in 1882"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A book of drawings a Burmese tattooist carried, so the boy could pick his figures and their positions before the work started.",
  "story": "Shway Yoe: \"The best *sayas* carry about sample-books with them containing clever drawings, from which the aspirant may select the patterns he likes best, and mark their relative positions before he takes the opium.\"\n\nThat is a flash sheet, a consultation and a layout, in 1882, in a tradition usually described as though the designs came out of nowhere."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "สมุดภาพที่ช่างสักพม่าพกไป เพื่อให้เด็กเลือกลายและตำแหน่งก่อนเริ่มงาน"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "design-block",
   "as": "The same invention, three times over.",
   "rel": "tool"
  },
  {
   "to": "htoe-kwin",
   "as": "The work it was for.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:shway-yoe"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:shway-yoe"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "lanna",
  "measured"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
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   "file": "sample-book/sample-book-bodleian-ms-burm-a-5-fol063-3.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Bodleian Ms. Burm. a. 5 fol063-3.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Bodleian_Ms._Burm._a._5_fol063-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
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   "license": "CC BY 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "author": "",
   "credit": "Bodleian Library, Oxford. Shelfmark Ms. Burm. a 5",
   "alt": "Bodleian Ms. Burm. a. 5 fol063-3.jpg",
   "date": "",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "aa65129597620f82ec0d99cbd812b4b1ace59e06812cfb487aabe84bc3e95546"
  },
  {
   "file": "sample-book/sample-book-burmese-kinnara-and-three-headed-peacock.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Burmese Kinnara and three-headed peacock.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Burmese_Kinnara_and_three-headed_peacock.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABurmese_Kinnara_and_three-headed_peacock.jpg",
   "license": "Public domain",
   "license_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain",
   "author": "Unknown authorUnknown author",
   "credit": "Library of Congress, Asian Division (2), Washington, D.C., USA, published online at https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-dream.html (wb0002s-th.jpg), section \"BURMESE WINGED CREATURE\"",
   "alt": "Illustrations in a Manuscript of talismans and tattoos from Burma.\nupper image: half-human, half-bird creature and is known as a \"Kinnara.\" This mythical beast was originally an Indian creation though",
   "date": "19th centurydate QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:",
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