Painting

At top left a pwe (a theatrical performance) is taking place, with an orchestra featuring Burmese instruments, including the patt waing (drum circle), kyi waing (gong circle) and pat-ma (suspended base drum). At top right a pony race takes place within a corner of the moated palace (Mandalay) compound with one of the entrances. Provincial rulers on elephants and horseback followed by attendants carrying their regalia process on the right and left of the picture. A group of royal cavalry on the lower left are distinguished by their uniforms and horses livery. And, at the bottom of the picture, female elephants and their calves are being driven towards the entrance to the enclosure by tame elephants with their mahouts.

Figures are portrayed in costumes of the period--the women in trailing hta-meins, the men in pah-soes worn either as a type of sarong or drawn up to form pantaloons, revealing the tattooing which Burmese men underwent as a form of talisman against evil.