Laos

Shifting names, colonial frontiers and changing flags tell the story of Laos in these maps and prints. Zatta's eighteenth-ce...

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Shifting names, colonial frontiers and changing flags tell the story of Laos in these maps and prints. Zatta's eighteenth-century map of Indochina and Vandermaelen's nineteenth-century coverage precede French atlas sheets naming Annam, Tonkin and Indochina, other maps set the country beside Siam, Cambodia, Burma and southern China, and a sketch map records the Khone Phapheng falls on the southern Mekong. The prints show village life, a peasant dwelling and a festival at Luang Prabang, while plates of 1958, 1964 and 1985 record the royal standard and the national flags of different political periods.

Shifting names, colonial frontiers and changing flags tell the story of Laos in these maps and prints. Zatta's eighteenth-century map of Indochina and Vandermaelen's nineteenth-century coverage precede French atlas sheets naming Annam, Tonkin and Indochina, other maps set the country beside Siam, Cambodia, Burma and southern China, and a sketch map records the Khone Phapheng falls on the southern Mekong. The prints show village life, a peasant dwelling and a festival at Luang Prabang, while plates of 1958, 1964 and 1985 record the royal standard and the national flags of different political periods.

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