Burma / Myanmar: A 17th-century rendition of a New Year water festival in Pegu, lower Burma.

The annual water festival, known in Burmese as 'thingyan,' marks the beginning of the rainy season and is celebrated in Burma, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, usually in April. In this scene of revelry, participants gather water from the Pegu River and pour or throw it over each other.

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