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  Wat Bang Khae Yai Kuti Mural

 

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Wat Bang Khae Yai in Samut Songkhram several murals, including these frescoes on the wooden walls of the abbot's kuti, which are believed to have been commissioned by Chao Phraya Wongsah Surasak (fig.) during his time as governor of Ratchaburi.

 

They are believed to date from period of the Nine Armies War, i.e. the Burmese-Siamese War (1785-1786), when the Thai Army went to war with Burma, passing through villages of the Mon, Thawai, Tai Yai and Karen communities, and hence depicts the lives of people found along the way, such as this scene of a Mon man and a girl, dressed in a skirt that covers her breasts, pounding rice.

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  Wat Bang Khae Yai Kuti Mural